Our Services
Performance and Process
We’ll help you build tools, find efficiencies, and increase impact. You bring the knotty problems and broken, slow, risk-ridden systems. We’ll take the time to determine root causes and develop custom solutions that really work for your organization. We know the reality of government service because we’ve lived it for decades. And we know how to make and sustain real change in complex bureaucracies because we’ve done it successfully before.
Performance improvement analysis, process mapping, and updating policies and procedures
Modernization, simplification, and automation of operations
Custom technical tools, financial models and templates that seamlessly integrate with streamlined business functions
Expert support for budget book and financial plan design, performance integration and transparency initiatives
Crisis and turnaround management and succession planning
Standing up or rebuilding your organization or team from scratch
Budget and Finance
Expert capacity to help you solve fiscal problems and navigate change. With decades of hands-on financial leadership experience navigating some of the toughest situations in our field - from municipal bankruptcy to a catastrophic pandemic - we bring tested and trusted advice and fresh insights to your decision table.
Forecasting and budget analysis for multi-year planning and decision-making
Capital improvement planning and forecasting
Budget process redesign leveraging best practices and technology
Identification and management of cost escalation and savings opportunities
Personnel budgeting analytics, staffing models, and scenario development
Revenue analysis and review of diversification and growth opportunities
Financial management support after key staff and leadership turnover
Policy and Strategy
Independent policy analysis and strategy advice you can trust. We have extensive experience at the intersection of budget and policymaking at every level of government and during leadership transitions. Our experience spans across the full spectrum of political environments: from metropolitan cities and counties, to small towns and rural communities, to school systems and public colleges seeking sustainable solutions, to state governments led by both parties and new federal agencies under a Congressional microscope. We’ll take a look at the policies you care most about, and help you navigate from strategy development to practical action.
Transition team management and budget advisory services
Long-term goal setting, strategy development, and action plans for annual budget cycles
Independent budget and policy analysis for legislators
State budget and legislative analysis and strategy
