Insight Specialty Consulting is a boutique management consulting firm focused on helping public and non-profit organizations effect transformational change through strategic design and purposeful implementation. Our practice areas span the continuum from high level strategy and governance through portfolio and program development to tactical project execution. Having a breadth of experience ensures a holistic response to your challenge ensuring that both the upstream big picture and downstream implementation are integrated.
It all starts with strategy. A solid strategy gives your organization the direction to guide your actions going forward. It provides the basis to measure your investments, activities, programs, and services so that you remain on target and are able focus your energies and resources. It identifies strengths and weaknesses and optimizes your resources towards your goals. Organizations can respond quickly to trends and changing conditions by having everyone on the same page. It facilitates improved decision-making, efficiency, coordination, and alignment between stakeholder groups. Strategic goals and action plans are laser focused on achieving intentional outcomes, and demonstrable impact can be measured as progress towards the organization’s vision.
Project & Program ManagementProgram management looks to align strategic goals with project outcomes. For large-scale transformational initiatives, many projects will be managed as a program to better capitalize on efficiencies and ensure strategic alignment. Articulating scope, budget and schedule are the first steps to great project management. We help you understand your goals and requirements, locate potential pain points, and manage risk. Our team are certified as both Project and Program Management (PMP & PgMP) Professionals with decades of experience in managing complex initiatives.
PortfolioBased on best practices from public and private sectors, we offer strategic insight into real property stewardship initiatives. Starting with organizational design, governance, and process efficiency, we create functional and effective stewardship structures that work. Whether you need help creating self-sustaining multi-partner developments, or require portfolio strategies for your assets, we work with you to design and implement a portfolio strategy that works. Our team is educated and experienced in real estate transactions, development, and operations, and can offer end-to-end support for real property initiatives.
ManagementSupporting you through transformational change is what we do. We provide strategic planning, organizational design, program evaluation, and research support for the most complex initiatives. From implementing organizational changes to improving internal processes, we help you seamlessly create and integrate solutions to any problem, so your organization can achieve your strategic vision. We utilize current best practices in the field of organizational development and are certified asProsci Change Management practitioners.
Insight Specialty Consulting is a boutique management consulting firm serving public and non-profit sectors. We think big picture and work with organizations to improve their performance, structure, and strategy. Using our extensive industry knowledge, we offer holistic insights and guidance catered to your organization’s needs. Our team of experts and collaborators are hand-picked to address your most wicked problems.
ISC is working with a small community located on BC’s central coast accessible by airplane or boat only. They have engaged ISC to undertake organizational review and design mandate for their nation over the course of several months. This highly consultative project is looking to compare previous organizational review efforts to the current state to assess progress towards their strategic goals ...
The ISC team were engaged to undertake the strategic planning process for a professional association whose mandate includes representing its members in employment matters, managing collective bargaining, and advancing practice reform. Our engagement included conducting an environmental scan to understand the internal and external factors impacting the Association ...
Insight Specialty Consulting’s main office exists on the stolen, occupied, traditional and ancestral territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. We are grateful to the Indigenous peoples of these nations who have cared for these lands since time immemorial.