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Policy Analysis at CONSAD

• Economic and regulatory impact analysis,

• Economic forecasting,

• Economic and cost scenario modeling,

• Business planning, outreach, and communication,

• Policy analysis,

• Cost-effectiveness and benefit-cost analysis,

• Life-cycle analysis,

• Risk assessment,

• Technology assessment, and

• Simulation and optimization modeling.

CONSAD's professional staff examines the choices confronting public and private decision makers and provides them with a complete base of information and ideas to facilitate informed decision making. CONSAD brings more than four decades of meaningful corporate and personal experience in recognizing the need and applying the know-how to:

• Avoid technical biases — in the selection of approaches and methods — which could both pre-judge the "answer" or unduly restrict a broad search for innovative solutions.

• Become knowledgeable of the entire spectrum of a client's needs so that he/she is continually aware of tradeoffs among techniques, costs, and objectives.

• Be sensitive to and aware of the client's institutional and organizational needs and objectives, as well as a project's specific technical requirements.

CONSAD delivers its services, as is mutually deemed most desirable by the client and CONSAD, as either: (a) technical assistance to improve specific aspects of a client's program and its operations, and/or (b) a specific product (for example, a report, manual, system, data set, or trained staff), including the design and implementation of the process for product updating and maintenance.

CONSAD keeps pace with the need to analyze increasingly complex problems in the public and private sectors through the development of innovative tools, techniques, and data bases designed to help decision-makers take more informed, and presumably better, actions. CONSAD, in fact, specializes where these following elements characterize the problem:

• Manipulation of large data sets, collected at every level of government, as well as from the private sector.

• Creative use of computers in the collection, retrieval, processing, and display of primary and secondary data.

• Use of creative methods for analyzing data, including economic, simulation, optimization, and input-output modeling.

• Development of systematic methods for analyzing immediate, intermediate, and ultimate sets of goals and objectives for public and private programs.

• Need for novel management techniques and systems for examining, exploring, and selecting the preferred options from sets of alternative means to achieve given objectives.

For additional information on any of these topics please E-mail or call.