Optimizing the Human Performance System
Critical Thinking | Systems Thinking | Complex Problem-Solving
We solve the complex problems that put personnel and missions at risk, and we teach your staff the cognitive skills required to solve them.
What We Do
WE SOLVE COMPLEX PROBLEMS
WE BUILD THE CAPABILITY
PROBLEM-SOLVING AND RCA TRAINING
We offer courses for all skill levels, from beginners (BD1) to practitioners (BD2) to post-graduate studies for mentors and executives (BD3).
LSS enhanced training
Enhance Lean Six Sigma with advanced problem-solving techniques to improve processes and organizational performance.
Leadership Cognitive Skills Training
Develop stronger decision-makers by strengthening their critical thinking, systems level thinking and complex problem-solving cognitive skills.
Our Approach
COGNITIVE SKILLS TRAINING
Better answers start with better thinking, so we build three disciplines into your workforce: critical thinking, systems thinking, and first-principles thinking.
USING AN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK
One framework carries the team from symptoms to root causes to non-duplicative corrective action plans with repeatable results, which fragmented tool-by-tool methodologies cannot deliver.
THE RESPONSIBLE USE OF AI
We think first, apply AI second, and integrate third, always on internal Large Language Models that keep your investigation data off the public cloud.
Trusted by
Trusted by organizations where getting it right matters.
BlueDragon Protects the Force and the Mission
SOLVE COSTLY RECURRING PROBLEMS QUICKLY
SOLVE COSTLY RECURRING PROBLEMS QUICKLY
BlueDragon uncovers the systemic causes behind recurring failures, across people, processes, leadership, and organizational defenses. One facility had tried for five years. We closed it in four weeks.
DEVELOP EXPERT PROBLEM-SOLVERS
DEVELOP EXPERT PROBLEM-SOLVERS
Build critical thinking, systems thinking, and causal analysis from the frontline to the executive suite. Your investigators own the method when we leave. No dependence on consultants, no software licenses to buy.
ADDRESS VULNERABILITIES PROACTIVELY
ADDRESS VULNERABILITIES PROACTIVELY
Independent, evidence-based assessments of leadership, programs, and operational defenses. One raised a client’s emergency power availability from 55.9% to 99.3%, the best in the industry that year.
PUT AI TO WORK, KEEP HUMAN JUDGMENT
PUT AI TO WORK, KEEP HUMAN JUDGMENT
AI accelerates data analysis and reporting. Your people set the parameters, validate every output, and lead every causal analysis session. Speed comes from the machine, and the conclusions come from your experts.
ONE ENGAGEMENT PAYS FOR ITSELF MANY TIMES OVER
Three BlueDragon personnel with limited SME support completed each of these engagements in one to six weeks. The sites had planned to assign dozens of their own personnel for four to six months.
$85.8 MILLION
Returned to the U.S. Marine Corps in the first year. We solved chronic readiness problems the Corps had carried for years and brought readiness back above 90 percent.
$37 to $44 MILLION
Recovered from a prime contractor. Our six-week forensic investigation tied $148 million in overruns to contractor performance, and the government used those findings to sue and settle.
$25 BILLION
A facility award unblocked after a two-week assessment. We resolved the procurement failures standing between a nuclear weapons manufacturer and a Plutonium Pit Production Facility contract.
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About Us
People. Purpose. Performance
BlueDragon was developed out of necessity in 2015 by Rob De La Espriella, a DEMING PRIZE winning team member and Root Cause Analysis Subject Matter Expert from the commercial nuclear power industry, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Energy.