EFFICIENCY STUDIES

Decide Smart conducts Effectiveness and Efficiency Studies that enable organizations to utilize scarce resources in the most productive manner.  Our team works closely with the leaders and staff of an organization and, if applicable, its major stakeholders to enable it to fulfill its mission and achieve its goals in a more efficient and cost-effective manner. We always pay special attention to the context in which your organization operates in order to deliver, real-world, workable solutions.

 

Our team members have extensive experience in designing, directing and implementing statewide and jurisdiction-wide studies. DecideSmart has the analytical expertise to identify potential efficiencies  across the entire range of an organization’s operations. We also have the depth of practical experience that enables us to address the implementation obstacles that can diminish the impact of otherwise excellent studies.

 

Our Efficiency and Effectiveness Studies always come with a simple guarantee: If we cannot find efficiencies that can be achieved in the next 12 months that are at least equal to the fees we charge, there is no cost to the client for our work.

 

 

PROCESS TRANSFORMATION

DecideSmart works closely with management and staff to transform the business processes that enable organizations to operate in the most efficient and effective way possible. Our team can help to establish the step-by-step changes that will enable your organization to optimize its use of resources and focus these on mission critical tasks.

 

The principals at DecideSmart have significant experience in leading large organizations through change management processes.  We know how important it is to combine vision with detailed, practical and measureable steps that can make change a living reality and sustain organizational momentum.

 

DecideSmart’s service-oriented values result in a special commitment to working through organization-specific issues that can inhibit the transformation process.

 

 

TEAM BUILDING AND COLLABORATION

DecideSmart works within and across organizations to help build capacity to address problems successfully.  Our team can help build trust and establish collaborative processes that enable groups and organizations to achieve shared aims and common purposes.  We have worked with individual boards and agencies, with local governing authorities, and with regional groups that cross jurisdictional lines.

 

 

 

STRATEGY AND PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

Developing effective strategies for achieving goals is essential to success in both the private and public sectors.  DecideSmart’s principals possess a unique set of skills and experiences that can assist public sector organizations and their private sector partners design and implement strategies that enable them to achieve their aims in an innovative, cost-effective, sustainable manner.

 

DecideSmart is a solutions-oriented company that specializes in building public-private partnerships that deliver genuine value for communities, organizations and citizens.

 

 

 

FORECASTING AND ECONOMIC IMPACT ANALYSIS

DecideSmart conducts state-of-the-art economic analyses that enable organizations to understand the fiscal and budgetary consequences of the choices they are considering. DecideSmart employs sophisticated forecasting tools that enable governments and agencies to allocate scarce resources most effectively.

 

Our team members have developed forecasts that have a wide range of applications, from helping a state corrections department make annual forecasts of prison populations to assisting social service agencies in obtaining child support from “deadbeat dads.” 

 

DecideSmart also performs economic impact studies that enable governments and organizations to understand the economic consequences of specific projects and policy choices. Our studies utilize rigorous and transparent methods that are critical to obtaining credibility for the economic claims made on behalf of development projects.

 

 

 

PUBLIC OPINION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

DecideSmart conducts public opinion surveys, focus groups and community forums. 

Our team has decades of expertise in helping organizations obtain public input for internal planning purposes and on issues that are especially challenging and controversial.

 

The principals at DecideSmart have conducted local, regional, state and national surveys on a wide range of issues. We have designed and moderated focus groups.  We have facilitated community forums and public hearings. And we have conducted key informant and stakeholder interviews.

 

We provide comprehensive services, starting with the activity’s design through the final analysis of the information that was obtained.

 

The team members of DecideSmart assist organizations in linking the information it obtains to the successful pursuit of its long-term strategic goals.

 

 

 

FRACTIONAL MANAGEMENT AND INTERIM LEADERSHIP

DecideSmart assists organizations in maintaining high quality leadership.

 

We provide fractional management services that utilizes our firm’s considerable expertise to help smaller organizations obtain state-of-the-art leadership on a part-time basis. DecideSmart offers financial management, human resources and IT services in this format.

 

In addition, DecideSmart can provide organizations of all sizes interim leadership services. We have assisted organizations and communities as they prepare for new leadership or respond to emergency situations.

 

Please contact us to discuss the full range of fractional management or interim leadership possibilities.