Step 1 - Audit

• Collecting & clarifying the different business needs (granularity of projection, business constraints, what levers to play with, how to consume the results…)
• Codesigning the target solution with impacted stakeholders

Step 1 - Build

• Building & assessing the performance of a first optimization & forecasting engine compared to the legacy approach (manual & aggregated projections)
• Building a web app that enables the business stakeholders to simulate the nominal real estate needs, as well as alternative scenarios where they can play on a variety of levers (such as student count, programs structure & calendars, spaces allocation…)

Step 1 - Pilot

• Training the business users to get comfortable with the tool & associated new processes, then assisting them in generating & analyzing the first batch of full forecasts & optimized allocation