What can you use us for?

• Research on information that must remain discreet or confidential even from your own employees or where you need an independent evaluation, without a bias or agenda.
• Individual research projects where you do not need an on-site employee or consultant-save the cost of providing physical resources for a short term or contained project as well as saving the third party fees for a consultant
• Detailed analysis and comparison of multiple vendors
• Review of current processes, procedures, documentation and staff utilization.
• Independent quality assurance checks
• Increase efficiencies and provide recommendations for reorganization
• Staff training or retraining
• Independent product or service evaluation-your's or a competitor’s. Business today must be on the cutting edge and it is easy to fall behind quickly without the proper knowledge of your competitors or of the market’s opinions or expectations of your product.
• Any information or data-oriented need that your current employees are either too busy or do not have the expertise, to do.
• Fact checking or research for writers or authors
• Information validation, when you simply must be sure that your own research is correct
• For our Virtual Assistance services, we can provide basic office services to you on an as needed basis and eliminate the need to employ a full-time employee and incur all the related, costs such as benefits and a physical location.  We can also be used on an as needed basis in addition to your own administrative employees, during periods of increased workflow or for specific presentations or reports.
• Local event coordination and assistance- We can be that "extra hand" to assist with all the details of planning and execution of small/medium business and marketing events and meetings as well as charitable events in the northern NJ area. 

Some examples of recent projects we have done are:

• Analysis of three print vendors for a medium size financial company, including creation of RFPs
• Restructuring of staff at a small company to produce better quality assurance and efficiencies.
• Large gap analysis on four current applications, making recommendations for consolidation to one new system
• Restaurant product and service evaluations
• Research on organic and small sustainable farms in the Northeast
• Creating standardized job descriptions for a smaller company
• Checking facts for an article on the environment
• Researching industry standards in the Mutual Fund industry
• Review service levels at a local restaurant

Our Background

So what makes us qualified to provide this service? Some of the credentials and experience we can draw on to complete your research are:

• 25+ years of working in business including financial services and investment management at all levels including very senior positions at major financial institutions
• Formal business management training as well as hands on experience in departmental and staff management positions
• 10 years in the IT industry as a senior consultant for many large companies, doing detailed business and process analysis and documentation for new and existing software applications of all types including vendor and gap analysis, as well as work flow and process re-engineering.
• Formal training in many aspects of the food industry, philosophy, religions, ecology, writing, financial markets, business and project management, the environment, proofreading, MS Office suite (Project, Excel, Word, Visio, Powerpoint), to name a few.
• 10 years of Internet search and data gathering experience
• A love of books, reading, information and detailed research and a general curiosity about all things-more important than you may think since motivation very often influences the outcome of any endeavor.
• Many years of assisting with business and charitable events