Business Modeling and Intelligence

Test your business strategies against realistic business environments - without the risk of loss. Our interactive economic, operational, and market models allow business leaders to identify the nature of a business issue and then project the potential paths for business success - an effective process for tackling complex problems. Gaming affords tremendous insight into the components and interdependencies that comprise a particular problem; various options that might be employed to resolve a difficult issue; and ramifications and implications of implementing any particular solution.

Interactive modeling techniques, initially developed for national security scenarios, have evolved into a rigorous set of tools designed to confront today's most pressing business challenges. These competitive models are an invaluable resource to companies with such diverse challenges such as non-traditional competitors, market globalization, time-to-market pressures, continuity of operations, accelerating market change, competency imbalance, and deregulation. Gaming presents a unique opportunity for leading-edge firms to capitalize on tools proven in real-world, mission-critical, high risk operational environments.

Our interactive models provide:

• A penalty-free environment that allows testing of business decisions and strategies to improve corporate competitiveness within real-world markets.
• Insight into how competitors, customers, and stakeholders would respond to selected strategies, actions, and events.
• Clear business direction through consensus building and better alignment across functional areas and business units.

SAIC delivers:

• Competitive performance prototyping under alternative scenarios
• Requirements definition and risk analysis
• Dynamic, interactive test environment using market analysis, forecasts, and modeling

Powerful new gaming methodologies
SAIC has extensive experience applying competitive gaming to address the needs and concerns of a broad spectrum of customers. Over the past decade, SAIC has consistently developed and advanced this exciting and informative approach to problem solving. These efforts have resulted in new, powerful, and innovative gaming methodologies and the ability to conduct games tailored to specific needs. Both major commercial companies and US government departments have benefited from SAIC's interactive modeling and gaming.