Government & Legislative:

Our clients include state agencies, as well as organizations whose major business and operating decisions are impacted by legislative initiatives or changing regulatory requirements. We work with our clients to help them anticipate and understand how public sector initiatives may affect their organizations.

Our work has enabled our clients to obtain critical information needed for decision-making and strategic planning, as well as to shape legislative development.

Success Stories:

Challenge: The Commissioner of one of Minnesota’s state agencies was working to increase the emphasis of its employees to focus more on providing quality services and to re-define the focus of the department's customers to include ... Click here to read more.

Challenge: The CEOs of the major hospitals and health systems located in Minnesota needed to understand why they were ineffective in shaping the State's initial health care reform legislation that implemented a sweeping redesign of the State’s ... Click here to read more.

Challenge: In an attempt to establish higher standards for the Minnesota's system of elementary and secondary education, the Minnesota Department of Children, Families and Learning (CFL) developed the Profile of Learning. Staff from the Minnesota Center for Student Performance ... Click here to read more.

Challenge: The board of trustees of a 164-bed county-owned hospital in Kansas needed an independent review of the organization’s senior management. A variety of situations had occurred which had eroded the trust between the board and staff. The hospital had established ... Click here to read.

Challenge: A 266-bed non-profit, acute care general hospital located in New York was looking to update its strategic plan. This JCAHO-accredited community-owned hospital owned an ambulatory care clinic and had recently purchased a laboratory ... Click here to read more. 

Challenge: A client was developing a 27-acre continuing care retirement community in Colorado. The independent living component was already in pre-sale. Restrictions imposed by the State of Colorado on the development ...Click here to read more.

Challenge: City officials in a small rural community were attempting to find an alternative use for their vacant hospital building and were considering the potential for conversion of the property into a board and lodging facility for frail elderly ... Click here to read more.