Designing, deploying, and supporting emerging technologies and capabilities are critical to the success of technology-intensive organizations. Our experience working with those organizations has shown that structured, repeatable engineering, research, and product development processes are the keys to sustaining leading technology positions in rapidly changing environments. In contrast to traditional systems engineering approaches that are often inflexible and academic, our Engineering Management (EM) approach uniquely applies a strategic perspective to traditional, multi-disciplined engineering processes. Our EM services are focused on linking science and technology capabilities to the overall strategic objectives of our client organizations; identifying high-potential investment candidates; and ensuring that the investments are well-executed in order to deliver the desired impact over their life cycles. By applying strategic engineering principles to our clients’ needs, we can assure the development of comprehensive system design solutions that balance cost, schedule, and performance, while reducing risk and ensuring the accurate tracking of the technical information needed for informed decision making. Effectively, ICOR engineers consult with clients to not only analyze their existing requirements and processes to ensure that “they are doing the right things,” but also apply strategic engineering management principles to ensure that they are “doing the right things right.” Our Engineering Management offerings include:

• Innovation Strategy. Creating and implementing a strategic framework to align research, product development, and engineering activities, resources, and investments to our clients’ missions and desired strategic outcomes.
• Portfolio Strategy. Applying portfolio analysis and rationalization to select the technology and product investments that best support our clients’ missions.
• Systems Engineering. Applying a multi-disciplined engineering approach to designing, developing, deploying, and sustaining technology and products.
• Concept of Operations (ConOps) Development. Utilizing ICOR’s Operations Playbooks^sm to develop comprehensive future-state operating models that turn technologies into operational systems and solutions.
• Strategic Technology Roadmapping. Developing and communicating short, medium, and long-term technology and product visions relative to future state requirements and desired strategic outcomes.
• Process Engineering. Designing, developing research & development, product development and engineering processes, and business models in order to manage costs and accelerate speed to market.
• Engineering PMO. Providing strategic, financial, and operational oversight, program integration, and project management of complex engineering programs.