State and Local Government
With many states facing extreme budget deficits that are likely to continue over
the next few years, state and local government leaders are seeking new
approaches to achieve greater efficiencies and boost performance in operational,
financial and organizational management. When these budget constraints are
combined with increasing constituent demand for new support services, runaway
Medicaid costs, obsolete infrastructure, and increased security requirements of
a post 9/11-world, state and local governments are operating under extreme
social, financial and political pressure.
The time for quick fixes or simply dusting off old, tired playbooks has passed.
State and local entities now have a unique opportunity to not only resolve some
of their long-standing programmatic, operational and budgetary issues, but also
to simultaneously drive increased value for constituents, make more efficient
use of taxpayers' money and strive for continuous improvement.
With a dedicated team of experienced management and I/T consulting
practitioners, Peak Performance Technologies’ Public Sector Services is uniquely
positioned to assist state and local governments in solving complex issues and
implementing innovative solutions to reduce costs and potentially generate
revenue. Our professionals – qualified experts with an average of 15 to 20 years
of government experience – bring a unique combination of top-tier strategy
consulting skills, organizational restructuring experience, and practical
industry expertise to every client situation. The majority of our consultants
and leadership team have spent their careers focused on providing a broad range
of management and technology consulting services for public sector customers
including state and local governments. Our consultants have worked on some of
the largest and most complex government implementations of ERP systems in the
nation and have our firm specializes in assisting with the implementation of
administrative applications within government environments.
Peak Performance Technologies has a deep understanding of the particular
challenges public sector organizations face, including tough financial
constraints, the need to “do more with less,” employee retention issues, complex
union concerns and employee resistance to change. Additionally, public sector
organizations must satisfy unique and extensive reporting requirements as well
as the public’s right to know.
We can help you rise to these challenges by providing you talented resources
coupled with a proven approach, based on best practices and tailored to your
specific needs. Our expertise spans all aspects of financial performance
measurement. This includes maximizing commitment control on budget expenditures;
streamlining procurement processes; enabling employee, manager, or customer
self-service applications; helping employees understand and embrace technology
and process changes; and much more.
Solutions for Today’s Challenging Times
The economic conditions across the country have devastated the budgets of many
state and local governments. The importance of keeping the technology up to date
when compared to providing basic tax payer needs such as fire, police, Medicaid
and welfare simply don’t compare. Over the course of the last three years we
have watched state agencies, city and county governments, independent school
districts, public sector transit and utilities make difficult decisions that
almost always involve laying off staff, eliminating or reducing services to the
tax payers in the district or delaying technology upgrades or refreshes that are
contractually required by the hardware and/or software vendors. For this reason
we have created a set of custom service offerings that we tailored to help these
clients who are running PeopleSoft or Oracle products. We worked with our
current and past customers to identify targeted services they could afford
leveraging innovative delivery models that could reduce costs and ensure access
to subject matter experts.
Examples of solutions we are providing to State and Local government customers
include:
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Part Time Project Management and Change Management
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Flexible access to functional and technical subject matter experts at no
additional cost
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Remote implementations of new products
- Remote upgrades
- Creation of shared service models that combine the environments from multiple
clients into a single model
- Outsourcing of technology and/or business functions
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