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SVGC Ltd:
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
Ensuring the Golden Thread of Requirements Throughout the System Lifecycle.
Effective Requirements Management is a continuous process, essential for defining, maintaining, and controlling complex systems with minimal risk. SVGC’s expertise ensures requirements are captured, managed, and traced throughout the lifecycle, enabling informed decision-making and seamless project execution.
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Our Requirements Management Services Include:
- Requirements Identification & Capture
- Management, Monitoring & Control
- Traceability & Audit Trail
- Change Control & Impact Analysis
- Toolset Provision & Application
More than just defining requirements, Requirements Engineering is a fundamental pillar of Systems Engineering. To manage complexity effectively, it must be complete, coherent, and consistent, focusing on:
- Elicitation & Specification: defining clear, actionable requirements
- Management, Auditability & Traceability: ensuring accountability and control
- Process & Tools: implementing best practices for efficiency
SVGC provides expertise supported by appropriate tools and processes to present requirements in a realisable form. Contact us for more information.
Capability & Strategy Management
Does your business understand the capabilities that it needs to deliver effective future services?
We know that even at the C Suite level, inexperienced or under-pressure staff can struggle to understand what the real demands are on the business in capability delivery. Making the right strategic decisions within tight budgets can mean the difference between business success and failure.
We have 20 years’ experience in effective Capability & Strategy Management. Providing capability analysis support to maximise business capability and ensure evidential traceability, rigour and efficiency in strategic decision-making. We provide a package of cost-effective Capability Analysis services including:
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- Definition of the Capability Management context
- Articulation of the Capability demand; what do I need?
- Articulation of the Capability supply; what can I get?
- Gap Analysis; scenario driven demand / supply delta
- Options assessment; options and cost-benefit analysis
- Control; assessment of constraints, organisational, financial and other
- Programme Change definition; roles, responsibilities, business planning
If your organisation needs:
- Commercial acumen with experienced and detailed technical knowledge and robust capability analysis skills
- Smart, effective, objective, viable and assurable requirements, across agile and hybrid projects
- Effective analysis of capability options, strengths and weaknesses
- Business Case development support based upon effective strategy design
Contact us today to see how we can provide high-quality, effective and controlled delivery of your most important programmes and projects.
P3DM – PROGRAMME, PORTFOLIO, PROJECT DELIVERY MANAGEMENT
Worried about the risks of poor programme management?
Inexperienced or overstretched teams can lead to costly mistakes, jeopardising project success. Don’t let poor management put your deliverables at risk.
SVGC specialises in Programme and Delivery Management, expertly guiding projects through every phase of the Project Life Cycle. We implement tailored, effective working practices to keep your programme on track, ensuring efficiency, accountability, and success.
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We provide a full range of cost-effective Programme Management services including:
- Project Management: either integrated into the organisation or as an independent team
- Project Planning: waterfall, agile and hybrid
- Financial Management: COEIA, EVM and Financial Modelling
- Funding governance: understanding MoD CADMID funding cycles approval
If your programme/project/organisation needs:
- Commercial acumen with detailed technical knowledge and robust financial management skills
- Full visibility and control of complex, high priority projects through detailed Project Planning
- Accurate, viable and informative schedules and plans
- Effective tracking of projects’ progress
- Deliverables on deadline
Contact us today to see how we can provide high-quality, effective and controlled delivery of your most important programmes and projects.
Dimensions RM Requirements Management
SVGC is proud to partner with OpenText in offering Dimensions RM – the MOD’s chosen Requirements Engineering toolset.
Dimensions RM tackles three core areas of Requirements Engineering:
- Elicitation & Specification: Complete, correct, and unambiguous capture, analysis, and prioritisation of requirements
- Requirements Management: Continuous traceability, change control, impact analysis, and audit throughout the lifecycle
- Requirements Process: Tailored metrics, schemas, and regime selection to ensure effective execution
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The toolset provides MOD users with real-time visibility of requirements and performance, driving down the risk of ‘exquisite’ procurement and promoting faster, more agile systems delivery. Dimensions RM also supports Capability Portfolio Management (CPM) and Performance Tracking, offering Programme and Project boards with a shared, single source of truth.
Together with OpenText, SVGC provides the hosting, tailored toolset, professional Requirements Engineering experience, plus a comprehensive support framework, ensuring seamless adoption for all requirements users and administrators.
Transform your requirements management with Dimensions RM tools and SVGC expertise, ensuring that your projects progress with full visibility, traceability, and effective risk management. Contact us for more information.
Business Intelligence & Reporting
At SVGC we have constructed hundreds of user-friendly Business intelligence dashboards that display real-time analytics. More recently we have built systems that enable you to chat with your data and that provide automated data analysis. We encourage you to think about scalability and future-proofing your Business intelligence systems and we are always happy to provide training and support to speed the adoption of a new platform.
The benefits of using our Business and reporting platform development experience:
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- Fast Decision Making: Clear, well-designed visualisations allow senior leaders to grasp the situation quickly in real-time, take action and make informed decisions.
- Operational Efficiency: Having a good view of your data streamlines processes and identifies areas for improvement, leading to reduced costs and increased productivity.
- Risk Management: Understanding the trends in your data, helps identify and mitigate risks through predictive analytics.
- Performance Monitoring: Tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure goals are met and strategies are effective.
- Transparency and Accountability: A valuable dashboard improves transparency in operations and ensures accountability through detailed reporting.
- Resource Optimization: Visualize what your resources are doing to assist in optimal allocation and utilisation of resources.
- Compliance and Security: Use your data to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and enhance data security. Get early warnings of problems and issues.
Training Needs Analysis & Training
SVGC offers a comprehensive range of training services, delivering expert, independent advice tailored to meet industry best practices or customised to the unique needs of our clients. We provide essential training solutions to support key programs within the defence, government, and commercial sectors.
Organisational Skills Audit
An organisational skills audit interrogates the organisation as a whole to determine the skills required to meet the business need, and those currently existing within the organisation.
Training Needs Analysis
The first step in closing performance or competency gaps is to undertake a Training Needs Analysis (TNA). Our proven methodology is based on industry best practice and can be customised to customer requirements:
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- Target Audience Description: gathers specific data about each stakeholder such as previous education and skills.
- Task Analysis: generates a hierarchical decomposition of tasks and detailed human performance analysis for subsequent specification of training need.
- Knowledge, Skills and Attitude Analysis: specifies the underlying skills and knowledge required by the job holders.
- Training Gap Analysis: defines those skills that are required by the organisation but are currently not possessed by the target audience.
- Media Options Analysis: develops media profiles based on fidelity, capability and suitability to either fully or partially meet the defined training gap.
- Training Solution: The culmination of the TNA is justified, auditable conclusion to the Media Options Analysis presenting the most cost and training effective media solution to meet the defined training gap.
Contact SVGC today to see how we can provide high-quality, effective and controlled delivery of your most important programmes and projects.
Systems Modelling
SVGC offers skilled systems modelling throughout the entire development lifecycle, from Operational Requirements to System Design, ensuring robust, data-driven decision-making at every stage.
Aligned with MoD guidelines for modelling and simulation in equipment procurement programmes, SVGC provides comprehensive modelling services tailored to your needs.
Our Capabilities Include:
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- Wargaming: simulating warfare to visualise operations and study strategy, train personnel, and analyse potential threats and conflicts.
- Component/Sub-System Modelling: predicting equipment performance in operational environments.
- System Modelling: evaluating the effectiveness of solutions and supporting trade- off analysis.
- Architectural Modelling: analysing information flows and system structures.
- Operational Modelling: determining performance requirements for real-world scenarios.
SVGC focuses on developing a coherent modelling strategy, ensuring models meet the appropriate maturity level for your programme.
We create a Synthetic Environment to integrate all models, with consistent data exchanges and interfaces adhering to open standards where applicable.
Need expert systems modelling for your project? Contact us today and ensure your systems are designed to succeed.
ITEA – INTEGRATION, TRIALS EVALUATION & ACCEPTANCE SERVICES
SVGC provides expert support to industry and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for the acceptance of highly integrated systems in compliance with UK MoD acquisition policies. Our services ensure that equipment is procured against endorsed requirements and only accepted into service once it meets rigorous Acceptance and Verification Criteria.
Our Comprehensive Services Include:
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- Acceptance Programmes: Collaborate with industry teams to specify test and trials programmes, ensuring the successful acceptance of both domestic and international development programmes.
- Trials Management: Coordinate with relevant authorities to organise trials and support all phases, from planning to execution. We take responsibility on behalf of the MoD for organising trials assets and ensuring all requirements are met.
- Results Analysis: After trials, SVGC gather and analyse detailed data, providing guidance on any corrective actions needed to ensure compliance with requirements.
- Verification & Acceptance: Create formal acceptance and verification documents, ensuring clear traceability to the original requirements, and oversee the acceptance process to guarantee all characteristics meet the agreed-upon criteria.
- Objective Testing: With extensive experience in system design, test, and trials, we ensure that all user requirements are subject to objective and quantifiable testing to meet MoD standards.
We focus on achieving concurrent contractual and service acceptance, accelerating the process to benefit both the supplier and user. Trust us to guide you through every step of the process, from system integration to final acceptance.
OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS & MODELLING
Benefit from improvements in efficiency, effectiveness, and performance of operations.
We understand the importance of Operational Analysis (OA) and Modelling as a vital component in the procurement of complex defence systems – right threat, right requirement, right equipment…right time!
Decision-making throughout the equipment life-cycle
We offer effective OA and Modelling support, delivering quantitative and qualitative methods for decision-making. Delivering understanding of the threat environment, supporting risk-reduction and helping get procurement right first time!
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Fast-changing battlespace demands responsiveness in the Decision-Action cycle
SVGC offers OA & Modelling support as a fast and efficient means to examine challenges in digital warfare, increasingly so in joint and coalition operations. Our OA and Modelling support has the power to examine, extract and optimize true operational utility of new concepts, identify vulnerabilities and technology capabilities.
Independent expertise and experience
Providing clients with independent support and best systems engineering practice:
- Scenario Generation operational requirements and force management studies
- Threat Assessment on current, prospective and hypothetical scenarios
- Historical Analysis applying our extensive experience of naval, land and air warfare
- Sensor Analysis of individual weapons and sensors, package or platform
Contact us for analysis expertise across Mission Planning, Resource Deployment and Logistics to shape User and System Requirements.
Through-Life Support ILS/IPS
SVGC offers a system-oriented approach to Through-Life Support (TLS), adding value early in project lifecycles. Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) optimizes system lifecycle costs by addressing all support elements from the start, while Integrated Product Support (IPS) focuses on designing supportable systems. Both maximize operational availability.
Support requirements are critical from the Assessment phase, influencing the Total Cost of Ownership. We develop these demands by understanding system purpose, users, and environment, translating them into measurable support requirements like documentation and training.
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Logistical Support Analysis (LSA) identifies design features impacting Through-Life Cost, including equipment use, standardization, and cost drivers. We perform Task Analysis, Fielding Analysis, and Post-Production Support Analysis, optimizing design for supportability and applying Technology Trade-Off Studies. Supportability Assessment ensures LSA objectives are met, with Support Working Groups facilitating complex systems.
Availability, Reliability, and Maintainability (AR&M) focuses on system design for availability and maintenance through reactive and proactive measures, using component predictive analysis, Data Collection & Analytics, and Verification Testing. We apply AR&M methods, setting realistic reliability targets and balancing cost, performance, and AR&M trade-offs.
TLS and Through-Life Capability Management are vital for complex systems, ensuring sustainability, reliability, and maintainability. We can assist to ensure that TLS Management requirements are in place for maintaining the effectiveness, efficiency, and safety of defence systems over their entire lifecycle.
SVGC Digital:
Digital Transformation
Does your business understand how to unlock the power of its data?
At SVGC Digital, we bring Digital Transformation to companies, departments and agencies to enhance business potential by leveraging digital technologies including Data Science and Analytics, AI and Machine Learning and Cloud hosting services. Integrating digital tools, legacy raw structured and unstructured data, and delivering data validation and verification processes, to enhance how business digital capabilities and services are delivered.
We have over 10 years’ experience in effective Digital Transformation. Our digital data experts proactively combine data feeds for multiple sources providing data integration of multiple legacy business data applications, transforming data into consistent business datasets to facilitate common data sharing inside a hosted Cloud data warehouse.
We provide a package of cost-effective Digital Transformation services including:
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- Standard data architecture design: to integrate legacy and future systems Legacy
- data blending: integration of multiple legacy business data applications Data
- Warehousing: creation of a unified data warehouse solution
- Data flow analysis: establishment of information flow between disparate systems
- Data Governance: enforcing data retention governance
If your organisation needs:
- Collaboration across common validated business data
- Reduced resource costs and inefficiencies in data generation and usage
- Removal of inconsistencies in multiple data definitions across teams
- Improved visibility of business data across the organisation
- Improved Data Analytics to provide real-time informed decision-making
Contact us today to see how we can provide high-quality, effective and controlled delivery of your most important Data Science programmes and projects.
Data Science and Analytics
Does your business understand how to unlock the power of its data?
At SVGC Digital, we empower companies, departments and agencies to leverage the transformative potential of data. We offer a comprehensive suite of data science and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) services designed to unlock valuable insights and fuel data-driven decision-making.
SVGC staff have over 15 years’ experience in effective data science and analytics services. Our data science experts will meticulously clean, analyse and interpret your business data, uncovering hidden patterns and trends. We’ll translate these insights into actionable recommendations, helping you optimise your business operations, support your customers more effectively, and deliver more effective business capabilities with directed effect.
We provide a package of cost-effective Data Science and Analytics services including:
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- Data-driven decision-making: Make strategic choices based on clear insights, not guesswork.
- Increased efficiency: Streamline processes and automate tasks with the power of AI.
- Enhanced customer experience: Personalise interactions and anticipate customer needs.
- Improved forecasting: Predict future trends and make informed business decisions.
If your organisation needs:
- Reliable data based informed business decision making
- Data analysis of raw and structured / unstructured data
- Predictive analytics driving machine learning supported business decisions \
Digital data transformation and data warehousing - Simplification of complex data communication
- Big data volume management
Contact us today to see how we can provide high-quality, effective and controlled delivery of your most important data science programmes and projects.
AI & MACHINE LEARNING
Does your business know how to harness AI to unlock the potential of its data?
At SVGC Digital, we help organisations unlock the transformative power of AI and data. We move beyond basic analytics, creating custom AI and machine learning models tailored to your goals. Whether it’s predicting customer churn, personalising user experiences, or automating tasks, our expertise ensures AI delivers real impact.
Our team brings cutting-edge expertise in AI, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing to develop advanced solutions that exceed traditional data management. By integrating Data Science and Analytics, we design bespoke AI models that drive innovation and deliver measurable results.
We provide a package of cost-effective AI & Machine Learning services including:
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- Optimising Business functions: increasing productivity and efficiency through streamlined processes and AI automated tasks
- Improved Business forecasting: through AI driven predictive trends to make informed business decisions.
- Advanced data disclosure: AI automated data visualisation and real-time data reporting
- Enhanced logistics management: AI optimisation of inventory, demand forecasting, and supply chain
If your organisation needs:
- AI supported business decision making
- AI driven business efficiency and process streamlining
- Improved AI forecasting over conventional data analytics
- Access to access to cutting-edge data science and AI/ML expertise
Contact us today to see how we can provide high-quality, effective and controlled delivery of your most important Data Science programmes and projects.
Digital Redaction Service
SVGC’s Digital Sensitivity Review (DSR) Service offers a sophisticated solution to one of the most complex challenges facing organisations today: ensuring sensitive content is correctly identified and redacted in digital files.
The DSR Toolset, developed by a team of experts in software, redaction, data analytics, AI, cyber, and policy, leverages a unique blend of Open Source, COTS tools, and bespoke AI-driven logic. This cutting-edge service automates the identification of sensitive information within digital records, ensuring compliance and enhancing security.
Key Features of the DSR Service:
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Assessment & Selection: The DSR Toolset evaluates file integrity and assesses which records should be retained for archiving and which can be deleted through macro-appraisal.
Sensitivity Review: Powered by AI, the tool pre-identifies potential sensitivities, suggesting redactions for fast user review and approval.
Packaging & Delivery: Once approved, the tool packages redacted files with metadata for secure transfer to archives or other destinations, ensuring full traceability and auditability.
Duplication Detection: DSR also addresses the risk of ‘mosaicing’ – where redacted content can be reconstructed by combining information across multiple documents.
As the volume of digital records grows, SVGC’s DSR Service, speeds up the sensitivity review process and ensures that only safe, non-sensitive content is shared or archived.
Keep your digital records secure and compliant with SVGC’s Digital Sensitivity Review Service.
Data Management
At SVGC our experience in data management leads us to focus on three key areas of your data.
1. Data Governance – Do you have clear data handling, interface, usage, and version control policies and procedures?
2. Data Quality Management – Do you have version-controlled reference data, automated data validation, and anomaly detection?
3. Data Integration – It is rare for a system to have a single source of data. We specialise in near real-time seamless data integration from different sources to produce a clear unified view.
The benefits of using our data management experience and approach:
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- Refined Decision-Making: Accurate and timely data helps make informed decisions leading to better outcomes. Small improvements accumulate over the long run to dramatic improvements.
- Greater Efficiency: Streamlined and correctly controlled data processes reduce system redundancy, save time, and enhance overall productivity.
- Superior Data Quality: Our data management approach ensures data accuracy, consistency and reliability.
- Compliance with Regulations: We cross-check and ensure that you meet all the regulatory requirements for your sector, including using our experience in highly sensitive data.
- Cost Reductions: With the rising price of Cloud services, efficient data management will reduce storage costs, e.g. minimising duplication of data
- Enhanced Insights: The integration of clean and high quality data with an analytical search engine will enable your analysts to uncover deeper insights.
- Data Security: We are experts in protecting and controlling sensitive information.
