Sharon Els

Business modeling and simulation Managing Consultant at Sage Analysis Group

Sharon Els has specialized in business modeling and simulation for over twenty years. Her client work has included: predicting market change and evolution, optimizing corporate resource allocation, and improving development project performance. She has advised corporate executives and government leaders on complex strategy, policy, and program challenges at a number of technology, aerospace, finance, gaming, and government organizations including AT&T, Atlantic Lottery Corporation, BAE, Boeing, DARPA, MasterCard, Pepsi, Pfizer, Raytheon, US Navy, and the US Marine Corps. She is currently a Managing Consultant at Sage Analysis Group.

Primary Expertise:

Market analysis, strategy analysis, and scenario planning – Use System Dynamics simulation and other techniques to analyze market and company behavior under different scenarios to identify investments and strategies that deliver superior, sustained performance.

Improve performance on major projects and programs – Work includes assessing project outlook, identifying strategic risks, diagnosing reasons for cost and schedule growth, developing recovery options, and analyzing leverage points for improvement. Have particular expertise in providing rigorous analysis and advice on the full impacts of changes over time, and how best to mitigate cost and schedule impacts.

Negotiation support and dispute resolution — One area of specialty is diagnosing and quantifying the full impacts of changes and other unexpected project conditions. Work with stakeholders to help reach agreement in negotiations, mediations, and legal disputes.

Specialties: Strategy analysis; scenario planning; market analysis; project and program analysis; System Dynamics; delay and disruption quantification; and simulation modeling.