Services

Through a national network of affiliated consulting specialists, we offer a full range of consulting services that help clients improve their performance, including:

  • Decision support - provide reliable counsel on big decisions;
  • Fiscal renewal - formulate specific measures to balance operating budgets, improve bottom lines and restore fiscal health;
  • Operations revamp - analyze programmatic and operational performance and recommend actions that will measurably improve operational performance;
  • Enterprise reform - analyze mergers, manage major initiatives and recommend feasible ways to restructure or transform organizations; and
  • Project control - plan, manage and monitor complex initiatives on time and on budget

In addition, we can assess long-range agency plans, study regional competitiveness, review infrastructure financing needs, manage government efficiency commissions and coordinate legislative oversight activities.  

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We also offer management consulting services to selected nonprofits, such as non-partisan charitable entities and civic advocacy groups.  These services include the following:

  • Nonprofit strategy - strategic planning, performance measurement and agenda development services for helping nonprofit boards and executives succeed;
  • Nonprofit collaboration - assessing the feasibility of consolidating mission-aligned entities or helping clients implement a merger, partnership or other joint venture; and
  • Nonprofit management - interim management and ongoing business incubator services (e.g., finance, fund-raising, accounting, website management, personnel management, contract management and purchasing).

Each of these services is designed to help our clients solve tough problems, and navigate significant organizational and operational developments and uncertainties.

  • Decision Support

    Objective counsel for clients about to launch a major new program, facility or initiative or assess the feasibility of embarking on such an initiative.    

    • Strategic & business planning
    • Feasibility & cost-benefit analysis
    • Legislative & regulatory analysis
    • Policy analysis & formulation
    • Vendor selection & outsourcing support
  • Fiscal Renewal

    Structured programs for helping clients improve their bottom lines, restore their fiscal health, enact new fiscal policies and ensure their future viability.
    • Financial planning & forecasting
    • Revenue, tax & fee analysis & control
    • Cost analysis, cutting & management
    • Debt analysis & management
  • Operations Revamp

    Though performance audits and management reviews using proven checklists and practice aids for clients in pursuit of excellence.

    • Baseline & performance trend analysis
    • Benchmarking & best practice scans
    • Organizational development
    • Business process reengineering
  • Enterprise Reform

    Focused planning and support service to help new or distressed clients transform their organizations dramatic changes in the way they govern, structure programs or deliver services

    • Turnaround & interim management
    • Rightsizing & resource redeployment
    • Merger analysis & planning
    • Civil service & regulatory reform
    • Legislative bill analysis & drafting
  • Project Control

    Diligent, hands-on and result-oriented aid for clients eager to complete a project on time and on budget—and attain real, measurable results.

    • Work planning, scheduling & monitoring
    • Contract negotiation & oversight
    • Capital project planning & tracking
    • Audit response & implementation
  • Decision Support
  • Fiscal Renewal
  • Operations Revamp
  • Enterprise Reform
  • Project Control