RANKING OF HOLISTIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES IN AFRICA

NSI’s Holistic Engagement Activities Ranking Tool (HEART) is a multi-criteria decision-analytic evaluative tool to analyze and optimize resources to objectives and assess and compare complex tradeoffs and changing priorities.

HEART Helps AFRICOM Planners and Analysts

NSI developed a prototype decision analysis tool termed Holistic Engagement Activity Ranking Tool (HEART) to help planners and analysts from Africa Command (AFRICOM) assess and compare various command engagement activities over multiple decision criteria. Aligning resources to strategy is imperative for overall mission success; however, without a framework and standard measurement schema it is difficult, if not impossible, to calculate the relative value of different engagement activities, as well as the trade-offs involved in changing priorities and activities. To address this, NSI developed HEART as an evaluative tool to analyze and optimize AFRICOM engagement resources to national and Command objectives while retaining the flexibility to monitor and adjust to rapid changes in political-military environments and/or the priorities.