Consulting Services

Washington Research & Consulting Services assist Federal agency and commercial organizations to:

• Understand and respond to customer requirements and expectations.
• Integrate strategic thinking with planning, management, and reporting
• Identify and solve planning, management, evaluation, and reporting problems
• Identify resource/technology requirements and ensure resources/technologies are dedicated to what benefits stakeholders most.
• Translate analyses into specific business actions that lead to cost-effective results.
• Improve and expand in-house business and personnel capabilities

Washington Research & Consulting Services provides valuable management and technical experience, extensive technical knowledge, and proven consulting skills and techniques related to the numerous functional and organizational disciplines that are at the core of our consultation services.
Our experience, knowledge, and skill are directed to assist organizations to successfully identify, plan, and implement business, organizational and management improvements. Washington Research & Consulting Services Consultation Services are focused to provide immediate benefits to our customers and lay a solid foundation for achieving long-term improvements.

Our services, which include our problem-solving tools and metrics, provide an effective framework for aligning agency strategic thinking and vision with: organizational development; planning and resource allocation; performance measurement and accountability re porting; and continuous process improvements

Functional and Organizational Disciplines

• Acquisition Management
• Activity-Based Costing
• Activity-Based Management
• Best Practices
• Analysis/Benchmarking
• Business Planning
• Business Process Reengineering (BPR)
• Business Process Modeling
• Business Process Improvements
• Change Management
• Compliance Management
• Contingency Planning
• Contract Management
• Core Competencies
• Cost Analysis
• Customer Service
• E-Commerce
• Emergency Planning
• Engineering Management
• Financial Management
• Human Resources Management
• Information Technology Management
• Internal Communication Strategies
• ISO 9000 and ISO 14000
• Investment Planning
• Logistics Management
• Leadership Development
• Organizational Communication Analysis
  

• Organizational Development
• Outsourcing/Privatization
  Analysis/A-76
• Performance-Based Management
• Performance Measurement and Evaluation
• Personnel Development/Training
• Position Classification/Description
• Process Improvements
• Process Modeling
• Productivity Improvement
• Program Management
• Public Communication Planning
• Public Participation
• Quality Management
• Records Management
• Resource and Systems Alignment
• Risk Communications
• Risk Management and Analysis
• Stakeholder Outreach
• Strategic Planning
• Succession Planning
• System Alignment
• System Development/Integration
• Team Building
• Training Development
• Web Site Design
• Web Site Management
• Workload Distribution and Analysis
  

Examples of Consultating Services

Provide expert advice, assistance, guidance or counseling in support of agencies management, organizational and business improvement efforts.

This may include studies, analyses and reports documenting any proposed developmental, consultative or implementation efforts. Examples include but are not limited to: strategic, business and action planning; systems alignment; cycle time; high performance work; leadership systems; performance measures and indicators; process and productivity improvement; organizational assessments; and program audits and evaluations.