Strategy & Capital Allocation
Put resources behind the decisions that create value.
Luna Sol helps executives connect strategic priorities to capacity, investment choices and measurable commitments. We make the assumptions, trade-offs and ownership behind an operating plan explicit.
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WHAT WE DO
Connect the business problem to an executable response.
An investment portfolio can look attractive while relying on overlapping benefits, unmatched baselines or capacity that has not been funded. We reconcile the plan at the level where resources are committed and outcomes will be measured, then compare choices on a consistent basis.
The work supports operating plans, headcount and capacity models, portfolio governance and benefit realization. Recommendations distinguish projected value from realized performance and identify the next decision that better evidence can unlock.
Operating strategy & resource planning
Translate priorities into initiatives, capacity requirements and accountable commitments. Examine the relationship between workload, service expectations and the resources required to deliver.
TYPICAL OUTPUTS
Operating plan, capacity model and resource scenarios
Portfolio prioritization
Compare initiatives using a common baseline, value definition and delivery horizon. Expose dependencies, overlapping benefits and constraints on execution.
TYPICAL OUTPUTS
Investment register, scenario comparison and funding gates
Benefit realization & finance alignment
Reconcile entitlement, forecast and observed realization. Define avoidable cost, incrementality and evidence requirements with finance before crediting value.
TYPICAL OUTPUTS
Benefits ledger, reconciliation protocol and realization review
OUR APPROACH
Diagnose precisely. Design for use. Verify what changes.
A practical sequence, adapted to the operating question and the evidence available.
01
Reconstruct the baseline
Reconcile source versions, scope, timing and current commitments. Establish which parts of the plan are comparable.
02
Model the choices
Connect each option to its resource demand, outcome, dependencies and incremental cost. Test downside and constrained-capacity scenarios.
03
Set investment & evidence gates
Identify the break-even conditions, decision owner and evidence needed to fund, stage, revise or stop an initiative.
04
Track realized value
Compare mature outcomes with the agreed baseline. Separate forecast changes from actual benefit and update allocation decisions as evidence develops.
EXECUTIVE PROJECT EXPERIENCE
The work behind the approach.
These cases document real work Ryan Miller performed at Amazon in prior executive roles. Each report describes the operating challenge, his contribution and the evidence supporting its conclusions.
10 executive project cases
Benefit Realization & Incrementality
An operating-project case on realization exposure and the incrementality test for a carryover portfolio. It separates missing actuals, future forecasts and expansion value from the value of maintaining an existing programme.
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Customer Loss Goals & Investment Proposals
An operating-project case on preparing an annual quality-goal intake. It examines competing target versions, incompatible metric grains, modeled headroom and a disclosed funding gap without turning a draft into an approved or attainable commitment.
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Enterprise Operating Plan Design
An operating-project case on annual planning in a distributed service network. It examines portfolio reconciliation, resource commitments, benefit validation and the evidence required to move from a submitted workbook to an executable plan.
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Financial Entitlement Reconciliation
An operating-project case on portfolio entitlement reconciliation. It examines contradictory Finance status, overlapping claims, incompatible rates and the evidence required to publish a supportable planning amount.
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Goal Allocation & Performance Planning
An evidence-reconciliation case on translating a network quality target into business-unit commitments. It separates baseline selection, exposure weights, allocation authority and deliverable capacity without claiming an adopted allocation or operating benefit.
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Integrated Portfolio & Funding Decisions
An evidence-reconciliation case on an annual operating-plan portfolio and its supplementary ideas. It separates line-item sizing, joint benefit, dependencies, funded capacity and review authority without treating a submitted document as delivered value.
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New Investment & Measurement Assurance
A white-space investment and measurement-integrity case. It separates programme discovery, functional equivalence, local applicability and marginal value while preserving the costs of both duplicate funding and mistaken rejection.
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Operating Investment & Incremental Value
An operating-project case on finding the next useful intervention in an established delivery network. It examines a mechanism-gap analysis, corrects its measurement and benefit logic, and designs a test of portfolio selection and mature outcomes.
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Program Portfolio & Ownership Governance
An operating-project case on rebuilding an annual-plan intake register. It separates source-field provenance, proposal status, accountable ownership and joint benefit evidence from the authority to fund and the ability to deliver.
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Workforce Capacity & Headcount Planning
An operating-project case on headcount and capacity planning. It examines how recurring work, project effort, availability and release sequence shape a staffing request when the funded envelope is fixed.
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