Services

Business & Financial Economics

  • Feasibility Study
    • This study is tailored to the specific needs of the client, and is often used to evaluate a potential project. This type of analysis is most helpful when expanding into new geographic markets, or when considering the development of a new product. Feasibility Studies are often required by lenders (including USDA & SBA) as a way to gauge the potential for success of a business or project. The core of the feasibility study consists of a Business Case and a Cost-Benefit Analysis.
    • Business Case
      • We have designed our Business Cases to provide a consistent and comprehensive view of the project or business based on measurable and realistic expectations. All assumptions are documented, logically reasoned and with sufficient detail to provide for ease of understanding and wide dissemination as needed. While a lender or investor may occasionally order a standalone Business Case, it is typically an integral part of a Feasibility Study.
    • Cost-Benefit Analysis
      • CBA offers an opinion on the costs and benefits for doing or not doing some activity. This most often looks like pro forma financial statements with known information. This is often a less expensive, albeit, limited alternative to a full fledged Feasibility Study and does not include a business case. Stand alone CBAs are most appropriate when the business case is well established, a feasibility study has already been conducted, and/or the project needs to have several scenarios modeled that were not previously considered. Lenders may occasionally request a standalone CBA.
    • Related, though less frequently produced analyses include:
      • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) – A CEA is mostly used in healthcare and conducted in addition to a CBA.
      • Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (DCEA)
      • Triple Bottom-Line Cost-Benefit Analysis (TBL-CBA)
      • Least Cost Planning Methodology (LCPM)
  • Holistic Financial Planning & Analysis
    • We take a comprehensive review and analysis of your current financial situation, and provide insights and guidance on measures that can be taken to improve your position.
  • New Business & SME Financial Planning & Analysis Advisory
    • Broad based advisory and support offered to New Businesses and Small/Medium Enterprises on a wide range of financial planning and analysis, business operating needs, and support in developing workable financial models for presentation to various stakeholders.
  • Operational Costing Analysis
    • Operational Costing Analysis seeks to understand what all aspects of your process and services costs truly are, and how you can better use your resources to increase operational efficiency.

Economic Analysis, Valuations, and Independent Opinions

  • Fair Market Valuation
    • An economic valuation for a given asset or firm offered as an independent opinion.
  • Royalties Valuation
    • An economic valuation offered for the lifetime or time range limited royalties revenue, often used in the buying or selling of royalties receivables, offered as an independent opinion.
  • Reductions in Human Talent
    • Reductions in Human Talent is a service often employed by firms seeking an independent review of their current talent pool, followed by a well analyzed reduction in force in order to remain competitive and sustainable. Offered as an independent opinion
  • Economic Policy Analysis
    • Economic analysis of potential regulatory and policy changes, and their impact potential for firms and governments, offered to select clients as an independent opinion
  • Economic Base Analysis
    • Quantifies the reasonable economic base of a defined geographic area for a specific sector, industry, or project endeavor.
  • Economic Impact Analysis
    • Used to analyze the proposed or anticipated economic and financial impact that an event will have on a particular region.
  • Economic Forecasting
    • Used primarily to provide a view of what the future economic climate will be like. Forecasts are regularly used to provide additional insight about potential opportunities and risks over the next year.
  • Regional Economic Analysis
    • This study is designed to evaluate a given region’s current economic state. Used to understand the risks and comparative advantages of basing, growing, and developing within a specific market.
  • Industrial Composition Study
    • Quantifies the market penetration and/or diversification of a particular industry or sector within a defined geographical region. Used to understand the general market conditions and level of competition in a given area.
  • Leisure Import/Export Studies
    • This unique study seeks to understand the total share of leisure that is either imported into a region in the form of non-permanent events and the propensity of residents to leave for leisure and exported in the form of leisure producing activities that generate revenue for the community through tourist spending.

Education & Training

  •  Comprehensive Independent Educational Evaluation
    • Assistance with creating and implementing Individual Academic Plans (IEP’s), as well as creation and thorough reviews of Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA’s) with 6 week data loops, if needed.
    • In home collaborative training with Positive Learning Communities (PLC’s).
    • Instructional Program Design, and Standardized Performance Analysis
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Training & Advisory
    • Disabilities Inclusion Programming
    • Disabilities Workplace Integration
    • Diverse Talent Acquisition Programming
    • Disabilities Advocacy Management & Advising
    • Individualized Education Plan Advocacy
    • Cultural Workplace Integration
  • Leadership & New Manager Training
    • Management and Executive training and coaching provided to select clients often as part of a larger project. Structure and Instruction determined on a case by case basis.
  • Population Buy-In Critical Development Pathways
    • Most often used by municipalities seeking to globally change their local culture in favor of stronger tourism exportation. We help to independently identify the Critical Development Pathway as it relates to goal alignment or “buy-in” by the local population. This may look like regular ongoing conversations with business owners to help them make systematic and operation changes that support a more cohesive local tourism environment. It can also look like structured Town Meetings and classes that help the population understand the need for change, but also how to deal with the stresses that are created by such change. We also help develop integration and implementation methods for cultural awareness so that success is not stymied by cultural differences.
  • Customer Experience & Guest Services Operations Training
    • Training focused on comprehensive operational support for effective, efficient, and profitable customer experience management. Guest services focuses on the extended transactional care of customers at a high operational level. Here we seek to fully develop customer facing employees to a level that rivals top brands worldwide.
  • Process & Procedures Development & Implementation
    • Most often used by clients seeking to better define and refine their existing process and procedures operationally.
  • Integrated & Holistic Change Management
    • One of the most requested services, change management is about understanding the need for change, and the alignment process needed to achieve that change for the better of the organization. Integrated and Holistic means that we focus on change at all levels of the firm to allow for a top-down and bottom-up approach to change. This allows for rapid cultural movement to a new approach.

Arts, Entertainment, Leisure & Tourism

  • Cultural Curation Economic Analysis
    • A comprehensive study designed to understand the current state the cultural attractiveness and uniqueness of a given location or region. Typically used by municipalities and development authorities seeking to grow leisure and tourism in their region, often in conjunction with a Leisure Import/Export Study.
    • Leisure Experience Diversification Analysis
      • Helps to identify leisure experience opportunities that may be lacking from a geographical area.
    • Recreation Uniqueness Evaluation
      • Helps to evaluate how unique a recreational experience is, relative to other options. Often used to help rank growth and investment priorities
    • Tourism Assets Efficiency Analysis
      • Helps determine how effective local assets are, relative to market peers. May include an assessment of branding effectiveness and marketing programming. Often used as part of a closure or redevelopment plan.
  • Asset Mapping
    • Mapping the community assets available to an organization or region, and analyzing how those resources can be more efficiently employed to the benefit of a firm or community.
  • Sentiment Analysis
    • This tool is used to contextually understand an audience or customer bases’ attitude toward a firm or organization. Offered to select clients, often as part of a larger project.
  • Audience Analysis & Management Advisory
    • Understanding who your audience is, and what their characteristics are allows you to better develop content, advertising, and digital assets that are meaningful and useful to them. Used to develop methods and strategies that yield valuable, scalable, and sustainable growth not only in terms of audience size, but value.
    • Global audience management strategies are employed to help clients unearth all aspects of their audience, and how they can take effective control of their audience. This service is often used when developers are seeking to expand branded content offerings. Examples would be Game Developers expanding to a second unrelated g seeking to move their audience with them, Game Publishers, expanding outside of their core genre(s), or other Media outlets needing to better understand and utilize their audience in some other meaningful way.
  • Game Development Analysis
    • Helping developers and publishers analyze the market and provide independent assessments and guidance in what to develop. This can be complementary to or an alternative to a feasibility study. This service is also used by developers to anticipate conservative lifetime revenue models for their in-development or pre-concept game to better manage resource allocation for the project.