The umbrella under which most of our work at A&A Ward Consulting takes place is that of strategic advancement.
Our team members have the skills and experience to work with you and your organization to understand where strategic advancement is necessary, and what kind of service offering best suit your current priorities and needs. Our services include the following:
Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is the systematic and ordered method whereby an organization develops a road map that outlines plans to advance from its current state to a desired future state. It is the frame of decision-making criteria and the priorities to be implemented by an organization to ultimately guide its successful activities and structure. Most organizations renew their strategic plans every three years, depending on the stability of their respective system and changes occurring they may have to refresh their plans sooner. Our team will work with your organization to undertake this process and develop this blueprint guidance document.
Needs Assessment & Environmental Scan
A needs assessment is a process that aids an organization in determining their clients’ needs and is the basis to launch program priorities or strategies that effectively meet these needs. Our team will work with your organization to understand the current state and operating environment. We will conduct the necessary data collection and analysis needed to enable informed decision making that leads to better results.
Community Engagement
Organizations are often required to facilitate challenging conversations and/or complex discussions with stakeholders, community boards, customers and the general public. Our team has extensive experience in engagement and will work with your team in conducting these sessions in keeping with your company’s aims.
Cyber & Cloud Assessment and Strategic Planning
Our team has the skill set and experience to conduct cutting edge assessments of cyber and cloud-based IT infrastructure and systems, and to use these assessment findings to work with your organization to develop IT strategies that modernize and protect your company’s online presence.
Program Development
Creating new, innovative and value-added programs for customers is a highly demanding activity. Given our extensive experience and diverse professional expertise, we offer a documentation frame and creative process to support the co-development of new programs and services for your organization. We will work with your team, stakeholders and customers to design and customize program models that effectively address your unique needs through innovation.
Implementation Planning
Often when an organization is considering a new direction or is renewing their strategic plan, significant transformational change is required. Designing a clearly defined, action-orientated implementation plan is critical for success. The implementation plan defines the roles and accountabilities of executive sponsorship, corporate governance, stakeholder engagement, change management activities, key decision points and timelines required for successful project completion.
Operational Reviews
Grounded in a review of current practices as they relate to organizational and/or provincial standards, policies and procedures, operational reviews focus on ensuring organizations are offering highest quality services and that service user receive good value for their money and taxes.
Program Evaluation
Whenever an organization is considering a review of its core services or a specific service, a program evaluation is an effective tool to determine value added and success in attainment of outcomes. It includes an assessment about the general impacts made by the program, progress towards the intended goals and a comparison of the current state of a program versus the original agreed upon aims. Our team has extensive experience conducting mixed-methods program evaluations (i.e. quantitative data supplemented with interview data) and will work with your organization to produce a sustainable evaluation strategy that supports future successes.
Proposal, Business Case and Grant Writing
Proposal, Business Case and Grant writing is a major pathway to securing new funding for innovative and successful projects and programs. Developing business cases, grants and proposals is a highly organized process of clearly articulating and communicating program concepts and ideas that bring value to the funder and to your organization’s customers and community base. Our team has extensive experience in this area and will work with your organization in developing these submissions as required.
Contract Research Services
With extensive experience in academia, our team is prepared to support your research needs. This includes supporting project scoping and design, rapid review and synthesis of academic literature, preparation of ethics protocols for Research Ethics Board review, quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis expertise as well as knowledge translation and exchange strategies.
