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RIS Services

RIS offers consulting services to a wide range of industries and company sizes. The consulting services are typically comprised of an analysis phase, management development, and facilitated implementation of solutions.

The core services of RIS Consulting are:

Financial Services Investment Manger Process Integrity Review:

Investment managers establish an investment process which is designed to return a margin above its benchmark, alpha. Successful managers who gain new accounts grow their businesses. The growth can fundamentally change the investment process in ways that are invisible to the investment officer. The interaction between decision discipline, information systems, and human interactions can generate performance patterns that are statistically out of control.

Our process reveals and educates firm management on gaining insight and control over all factors that influence investment performance, and helps establish discipline appropriate to each stage of fund success.

Rapid Operational Improvement for Utility Operators

Utility operations have had to withstand discontinuous change in availability and cost of system inputs - energy, water, technology, and a fluctuating consumer demand. Add to that the strong necessary emphasis on environmental responsiblity, and utilities are experiencing more systemic stress than any previous time. RIS will bring a set of diagnostic and work-out methods to enable operational and culture change to best adapt to all of these stressors. As the President's Chief of Staff extolled, "Don't let a crisis go to waste."

GreenTech management reviews

The Green/Clean tech revolution is not like the tech boom orthe internet boom. Those were created by enabling technologies, which put all players at the same experience level. The Green/Clean revolution consists of many technologies, many business models, several segments, and a wide range of experience and maturity. Newly formed companies have a smaller window in which to become successful, lest they be overrun by more mature and well-run enterprises.

RIS provides consulting services to help emerging green/clean companies rapidly climb the experience and maturity curves to be competitive with strong rivals.

Scenario Planning

The improbably is inevitable. Every market goes through secular changes that catch almost everyone by surprise. We are so easily surprised because we always plan for the future to be an extrapolation from the present. We plan for best and worst case scenarios that are trivially different from one another. Good planning involves seeing clearly those scenarios that are disruptive, whether political, social, technological, or economic, and developing models of the future that play out key scenaiors. This enables more robust businss models, contingencies, and recognition when discontinuous scenarios begin to unfold.

Other services

Through special projects, RIS has acquired expertise in several additional areas, and is available on a limited basis to take on projects. These include: