Monsarrat II ®

Monsarrat II® enables "apples v oranges" comparisons when prioritising budget decisions in the face of competing priorities, stakeholders and risks. It focuses on determining the effects on total business outcomes given a change to any component of the organisation. It is an enterprise application that supports ongoing budget cycles and maintains an audit trace of business initiatives and organisational performance over time.

There are seven steps to a Monsarrat II® budget evaluation cycle,

  1. Build a structured Model of the business objectives;
  2. Baseline current performance;
  3. Identify areas of poor performance;
  4. Prepare business cases for Change Initiatives;
  5. Assess potential benefits, criticality, feasibility and risks for each initiative's Business Case;
  6. Rank the Business Cases on overall benefit and cost within budget constraints;
  7. Approve and implement the highest ranked Business Cases, and re-baseline the Model prior to the next budget cycle.

Monsarrat II® incorporates four decision points into the decision-making process:

  1. Impact on current capability;
  2. User priority;
  3. Implementation feasibility; and
  4. Risk the change will not perform as expected and the consequences should it fail.

Monsarrat II® encourages a disciplined and traceable approach to decision-making. It has use for:

  • Achieving best value from public funds.
  • Preparing budget submissions for Board/Cabinet approval.
  • Re-engineering business processes.
  • Managing military projects with complex decision points.
  • Clarifying and improving performance measures for non Government organisations (NGOs).
  • Testing and evaluation (T&E). Evaluating grant applications.
  • Analysing requirements.
  • Evaluating program performance.

Monsarrat II® requires MS SQL Server™ and Windows 2000/XP™.

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