Business/Management Consulting

At Professional Options, we regard management consulting as the provision of advice and practical guidance on the questions public and private sector managers need to chart a course for their organizations. We believe management consulting is best when it rests on rigorous analysis, quantitative and qualitative. Further, the best management consulting requires substantive knowledge of the client's line of business or issue area. It requires familiarity with the "nuts and bolts" of the client's operations. Our change management services support organizational improvement and reinvention with a range of consulting skills. Our approach recognizes that a client's culture, business processes, and organizational/technical infrastructure must all work together to support the organization's core purpose or mission.

Public Policy/Advocacy

Our economic, policy, and regulatory analysis services are directed towards producing the substantiation decision-makers require. We apply practical methods and techniques of economics and other analytical disciplines to meet the operational needs of decision-makers in the public and private sectors. Because our clients often are exploring novel directions for their organizations, our analyses frequently are cutting edge ... the courses of action recommended often innovative and pioneering. The bottom line is how we help your business plan succeed in the public policy arena. You know where you want to go. Professional Options helps you frame your business, service, or product plan to align it with the goals the public policymakers are embracing. We help you explain your plan to public policymakers in a way that connects with what they are trying to achieve. If you have advisors we work with them, advising your team about how to succeed in making your case to policymakers. We provide a sounding board for you and for them in deciding how to move ahead.

We comprehend the impact government action, or inaction, can have on business plans and the tangible effect on the return on investment that drives those plans. There is often a significant gap between government and business that leads to a disruption of investment strategy. We understand the critical elements that formulate an investment plan and the actions necessary to implement it. We commit substantial effort to conveying the impact that proposed government actions have on investment, technology, and economic expansion. We can also provide analysis of a company’s plan or public policy position, which can support your public policy advocacy. We assist you in your advocacy, oral and written, before the FCC, the agencies of the Executive Branch, Congress and the state commissions. We know how policymakers weigh advocates’ arguments and we know how to present your position persuasively. Professional Options provides regulatory support by advising federal agencies on developing, implementing, reinventing regulatory programs. We understand the regulatory process, having worked on dozens of rulemakings. We have assisted agencies in evaluating and reinventing their programs, and have built on this experience to develop proprietary approaches to assist federal clients.

Information Technology

In partnership with Keating Consulting Service, our information technology services help clients in designing, developing, implementing, and integrating e-business applications. Major competencies include e-business processes and applications, network and client/server architecture, database management systems, groupware, and Internet technologies. We also develop custom accounting software for business, as well as providing System integration, System support and Networking services.

Public Affairs/Communications

We assist you with the development, design, and implementation of World Wide Web solutions...and more. We incorporate the latest in interactivity and presentation techniques, including enhancements like Java/JavaScript and CGI programming; animations, video, graphics and audio content. We can also undertake the advertising and marketing of products in print and broadcast media, via seminars/conference, or on the Internet with the aim to help companies reach a global market. Our strategic communications services encompass a range of activities that include strategy development, market research, campaign design and management, materials development, event support, media relations, video production, media training, Web site development, and third-party marketing.

Community/Economic Development

Our community and economic development services provide strategic advice and support for development programs, as well as for the economic planning of regional economies around the world. Professional Options excels in helping communities understand how to design and manage cost-effective programs. We advises business and civic leaders about strategies to accelerate entrepreneurship, catalyze economic diversification, attract investment, and spur competitiveness.