We guide and support clients as they plan for and implement changes to their operations and organizations so they can achieve their goals, whether those are to increase operational efficiency, deliver better products and services, or become leaders in their markets.
We know the challenges our clients face are rarely solved with knowledge in a single discipline — that’s why we’ve equipped ourselves to engage multiple disciplines in the services we provide. Often collaborating with our Energy Solutions, Digital Transformation, and Sustainability & Resilience Practices, we deliver cutting edge solutions that draw on our collective expertise.
Our approach to strategic planning creates a dynamic and forward-focused vision, aligning the organization and stakeholders while prioritizing implementable efforts and resources. Drawing on collective knowledge, as well as research, data, and analysis, we clarify goals and create specific, actionable steps to achieve major results.
We work with our clients to facilitate the complex and significant decisions they face by helping them evaluate the key components and influences of the decision on qualitative and quantitative levels. Our focus on comprehensive analysis and structured processes ensures that risks, impacts, and benefits are understood, leading to confidence in moving forward.
Change is the only constant. We draw on our team's experience, keen insight, and leading intellectual frameworks to guide and support our clients as they design their future and evolve with intention.
Our diverse experience, coupled with our ability to quickly understand an organization’s systems, processes, and culture enables us to develop innovative and comprehensive approaches uniquely tailored to our clients’ operational, environmental, or cultural needs and goals.
We know successfully completing a project requires more than management — strong leadership is vital. Our project leaders blend the tactical aspects of execution with vision, foresight, and engagement, leveraging technology, processes, people, and culture.
Our facilitation approach consciously guides meetings and processes to ensure they stay on course and reach agreed-upon goals. Our tools and techniques keep conversations on track, ensure engagement and equitable participation, and simplify processes to arrive at collaborative decisions and cohesive paths forward.
Clients we're proud to partner with.
Development and implementation of an organization-wide risk-based capital budget process for a $75M to $100M portfolio of infrastructure projects. We facilitated the Capital Steering Committee representing all business units as well as work sessions with the primary internal client organization (Rates, Planning, and Analysis). The risk-based capital budget process included portfolio-wide manpower analysis, development of an integrated resource loaded schedule, and development of a risk-based model for portfolio analysis and prioritization.
We are leading a multi-department project team in the transformation of current business processes and implementation of an advanced system management tool. The project team consists of individuals from Transmission and Compliance (system operations, control system engineers), Customer Utilities (distribution engineers, customer service, crew dispatch), Information Technology (including GIS), and Communications. The advanced distribution management system supports a full suite of distribution management and optimization applications.
We guided a utility's management team through the process of defining Mission Statements, Business Requirements, and Work Functions for the Trading, Generation, and Power Planning groups comprising the Energy Division.
Based on these foundational attributes, our organizational and energy experts assessed opportunities for organizational efficiencies, alignment with the utility’s strategic plan, and readiness of the Energy Division to navigate anticipated future internal and external changes
We guided multiple USACE project delivery teams through the evaluation of hydropower plant control equipment and organizational changes necessary to enable centralized, remote control of 24 hydropower plants operated by 6 USACE Districts across 4 states. Based on the collaborative evaluation process, we documented the technical recommendation for modernized control and data acquisition equipment, designed a future organizational structure for centralized control, and developed a multi-year investment plan for scheduling and funding of the transition.
We were engaged by our client to reimagine how they could plan, acquire, and build the distribution infrastructure necessary to meet the increasing energy demands of their customers. Our client determined that to meet modern electricity usage and maintain reliable service for their growing community, they would need to build 15 new substations over the next 10 years. They were not getting the results they needed out of their process and were struggling to predict schedules and navigate variances - a new way of approaching the work was necessary. We worked closely with multiple internal stakeholders to define all project activities from the bottom up, leverage and improve existing project controls, implement risk-based decision making, and increase transparency internally and externally related to key project information. Working collaboratively with the cross-functional project team, we were able to incrementally improve the decision making and processes required to generate realistic forecasts and project plans to develop the infrastructure necessary to adapt to increasing demand and customer growth.
Our project teams are integrated across practices to make sure we have the right skills, knowledge, and understanding applied to the problem.
