About ISF, Inc.

ISF is a trusted thought leader in strategic services for public sector agencies. We are a stable and consistent presence for employees and clients who love what they do, respect one another, and thrive on making a difference.

Organizational Transformation

To make the best use of your human capital and drive meaningful change, we provide scalable solutions to address recruitment, hiring, onboarding, talent development, culture, compensation, and more.

• Organizational Analysis: Understand your organization’s current gaps, capacities, and opportunities from an enterprise-wide, program-specific, or business unit perspective.
  
• Compensation Study: Evaluate your organization’s current compensation model against the market to ensure competitive pay practices and employee retention.
  
• Workforce Assessment: Determine where your workforce is performing effectively and identify opportunities for improvement to support your organization’s needs.
  
• Capability Development: Optimize the potential of your workforce by cultivating talent, adapting trainings to meet emerging needs, and developing a sustainable strategy to implement future workforce capabilities.
  
• Cultural Assessment: Support employee morale, increase retention, and improve performance through a comprehensive cultural assessment and improvement plan.
  
• Stakeholder Coordination: Gain insight and support relationships through targeted, intentional, and meaningful stakeholder coordination and alignment.

Strategy and Operations

We design strategies that break down barriers and create momentum to ensure you achieve your most critical objectives. Our implementation experts can guide your leaders through the execution of strategy and process improvement, hand-in-hand.

Strategic Planning: Move forward with confidence by assessing your needs, understanding your goals, and planning for change.

• Business Process Assessment: Identify business process inefficiencies through business process mapping and industry comparisons.
  
• Needs Assessment: Put future action into perspective and discover new opportunities by identifying your organization's core needs to meet your organizations goals.
  
• Enterprise Risk Assessment: Protect your organization by identifying, documenting, responding, and monitoring risks.
  
• Implementation Roadmaps: Put goals into action through step-by-step implementation road maps that reflect your organization's priorities and account for existing barriers.

IT Modernization

Whether you need enterprise-wide or application specific change, our technology experts turn innovative ideas into scalable and feasible solutions for your organization. Working together, we can design tailored improvements to your IT infrastructure, applications, and data that drive your organization’s success.

• IT Strategy: Develop an enterprise-wide strategy to align resources around key goals and drive targeted improvements.
  
• Data Modernization: Improve your ability to serve organizational needs, adapt to change, and develop agile practices by updating the tools and systems that determine how you use and manage data.
  
• Feasibility Studies: Design realistic and scalable solutions to your technology needs through a comprehensive assessment that identifies your current operational capacity, accounts for dependencies, and specifies opportunities for improvement.
  
• Software Development: Enable your organization to adapt to the ever-changing technology landscape and better serve your mission through functional software custom-developed to your needs.
  
• Information Management: Strengthen information management practices through data governance improvements that safeguard your organization's pertinent data.
  
• PMO: Minimize margin of error and maximize productivity using dedicated planning, organization, execution, and governance services from experts in the field.
  
• Independent Oversight and IV&V: Ensure your systems are managed using industry best practices and are deployed as expected, meeting contractual and operational requirements.
  
• Procurement Support: Acquire tools and systems that meet your organizational needs by partnering with ISF's public sector IT experts who can help guide, coordinate, and facilitate your organization's next IT modernization procurement.
  
• AI & Emerging Technology: Improve operational processes and increase efficiency by leveraging cutting-edge technology to suit your specific needs.

Public Sector Advisory Services

As experts in public sector services for over 40 years, we tackle your organization's most complex problems, so you can focus on your mission. Our support spans industries from health to energy, regulatory to commerce, and education to family services.

• Grant Management: Optimize grant funding through carefully crafted applications, strategically designed implementation plans, and detail-oriented reporting.
  
• Marketing/Stakeholder Engagement: Build meaningful connections with stakeholders through planned outreach and adaptive communication.
  
• Emergency Management: Prepare and protect your community from the next unexpected emergency using ISF's experience across the Emergency Management cycle.
  
• Project and Program Management: Finish your project on time and on budget with ISF's project management expertise.
  
• Executive Coaching: Enhance leadership skills, overcome executive communication challenges, and drive meaningful change.
  
• Legislative Budget Requests: Obtain necessary funding with detailed legislative budget requests that provide a robust business case for your organization's budgetary needs.

For more information, go to ISF.com or contact your local ISF representative:

Nick Evans, Senior Client Partner, nevans@isf.com