Anne O’Neil Consultants advises organizations seeking to adopt systems practices and apply systems engineering (SE) expertise to achieve and improve business outcomes.  The firm counsels the increasing range of industries facing complexity, cross-disciplinary interfaces and integration challenges as a result of deploying technology-based, software-intensive and communications-intensive systems. 

With a proven track record, initiated by the Founder’s establishment of MTA NYCT’s systems engineering capability, the firm bolsters businesses across a spectrum of maturity levels – from assessing where applying systems expertise offers the strongest business benefit, to assisting the acquisition or enhancement of systems engineering as a new discipline and organizational capability.

Areas of Expertise:

• Setting strategic vision for organizations that seek to adopt systems practices
• Organizational change management
• Adapting and integrating SE practices within existing businesses / large-scale programs
• Tailoring and scaling systems practices that deliver value
• Advising executives: establishing SE business case; analyzing SE capability needs; aligning with business priorities and leveraging organizational strengths and structure

Services include:

• Guiding clients during conceptual phase of programs. Identify and prioritize business goals and strategic purpose. Develop operational concepts, documenting operational needs and priorities. Conduct stakeholder analysis, engagement and stakeholder interface management.
• Empowering executives, industry leaders to identify challenges, diagnose systemic root causes, and develop a path to improved outcomes built upon diverse stakeholder engagement and buy-in.
• Establish or enhance systems engineering capability allowing organizations to improve integrated system performance.
• Systems Training & Workshops: Create and facilitate executive off-sites and custom workshops, to raise systems-awareness that informs and cultivates support from across various functions and business units of an organization. SE training to apply systems thinking approaches and systems fundamentals; effective SE tailoring and scaling practices.
• Systems Teaching: Collaborate with academia to articulate systems needs of and application practices for industries beyond traditional aerospace/defense sectors. Develop courses. Lecturer.
• Design and facilitate interactive sessions allowing businesses to establish purpose and business objectives/priorities at corporate or programmatic levels. Structure delivered system outcomes to align with business and operational priorities.
• Thought leadership. Host global industry forums for collaborative exchange, cross-pollinating practices and generating value to participants.