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Two-Day CONOPS Practitioner’s Course: In response to students’ requests for a shorter course in these busy times, we have built a 2-day course. First taught in Europe in March 2006, it retains many of the class exercises and CONOPS examples from the 3-day course but shortens the Graphics In CONOPS and the Building the CONOPS Team modules. And the “Robotic Medic” exercise is done as a class instead of in small teams. The major points from the 3-day course are retained but in order to compress the schedule, some slides are provided as hand-outs for review by the student after the course. This two-day course is primarily designed for people who are already accomplished proposal writers, who have a background in DOD or DHS operations and who have written CONOPS before, or who just cannot spare the time to attend the 3-day course.
One-Day CONOPS Executive Overview Course: This is in response to several requests we have received regarding a shorter course that senior managers could attend. The course presents the highlights and major themes of the 3-day course, including most of the handouts and the People Mover exercise. We also retained the Operational/Exercise CONOPS outlining activity as a team event. Also, the “CONOPS and Systems Engineering Process” module has been expanded, showing timelines and phasing of OpCons, CONOPS, SRRs, PDRs, CDRs, etc. And we added a module “The Manager’s Role In Building CONOPS”. So to simplify your life and make your CONOPS building much easier, get your boss(es) into this fast-paced, hard hitting, one-day CONOPS class!
New Course Designed for the Science and Technology Community: "Building Systems That Meet The Users' Needs - - - A CONOPS-Centric Approach"
This new course has been taught to several defense industry primes and each has scheduled repeat sessions with STC. This course shows how users' operational needs track through Concept Analysis, Operating Concepts, CONOPS and Requirements. It uses unclassified case histories to show what can go wrong in a development project and how to avoid those pitfalls. It discusses the differences between users and operators, rapid prototyping, disruptive technologies, and the two types and five levels of CONOPS. This course is available in a 2- or 3-day format, the difference being mainly the number of hands-on CONOPS assessment opportunities offered during the course.
Consulting: We accept consulting engagements, short or long term, to help you build thorough, actionable CONOPS, hands-on. We can work at your facility (least expensive option for you) or ours. And we can provide assistance on very short notice and at any security classification you require.
STC also licenses to other firms its entire approach to CONOPS. A license can include the ability to use all STC CONOPS templates to build CONOPS for your customers; consulting support from STC for any especially diffcult challenges you encounter in building CONOPS; facilitation of internal or external CONOPS meetings with your clients and partners; immediate access to new CONOPS materials and tools as they are developed at STC (often before they are taught in the courses); the opportunity for your CONOPS pratitioners to teach your clients CONOPS-building techniques alongside STC's instructors; access to STC's Licensee-Only web site full of tips and techniques for building CONOPS, pricing CONOPS efforts, etc.; and if desired, expert help from STC in merging the CONOPS-centric, CONOPS-driven approach with your organization's proprietary R&D, product-development and business development/marketing processes. Call Mack or Cindy for the details.
Note: this option is only available to organizations whose members are graduates of an STC CONOPS course (you otherwise wouldn't know what you are licensing or even what we are talking about!)
This is typical of the emails we get at Solid Thinking each week: "We must have at least 100 people doing CONOPS documents for different Clients and they are all winging it on their own, without any common thought to quality control, and based solely on their limited experience with only one or two Clients and most probably with only one type of organization...we need a central theme when we do these documents and the people that do them need to have broader perspective than just that one Client as well as a sense of what it is going to take to do the Operations and Maintenance of those documents over time." (actual email inquiry, used with permission) |
