Partners in success

Larson Slade Associates provides a multitude of services for a diverse array of businesses that range from new start-ups to large, international corporations that have been in business for decades. We can serve you in a number of ways:

Business start-up:

• Strategic and business plans
• Marketing plans and materials
• Website development
• Corporate infrastructure development
• Business processes, policies and procedures
• Teaming agreements and strategic partnerships
• Lending capital
• Certifications for federal set-aside contract programs (8[a], small-disadvantaged business [SDB], Indian-owned, small business, HUBZone, woman-owned)
• Small Business Administration programs and loans
• Federal contract buying schedules (GSA, IDIQs, etc.)

Stimulate your established company's business development and growth:

• Opportunity research and market analysis
• Teaming negotiations and strategic partnerships
• Marketing materials
• Proposal management and development
• Oral presentation coaching and rehearsals
• Federal contracts our specialty

Enhance your company's performance with organizational performance improvement strategies and technology

• Choosing a performance management process (Balanced Scorecard, Benchmarking, Business Process Engineering, Management by Objectives, etc.)
• Development of organization-wide core values
• Development of measurable performance goals
• Evaluation of progress toward performance goals
• Coaching and feedback
• Goals-achievement compensation
• Project management support
• Project and performance management workshops
• Job aids and decision tools (print and online)
• Business process documentation and design
• Web-enabled team meetings
• Web-enabled surveys, polling and data collection
• Web-delivered HR services

Foster smooth transitions that are the inevitable product of growth, technology upgrades, and enterprise re-organization, using change management techniques

• Facilitated visioning sessions
• Needs assessment surveys (focus groups, online surveys, online threaded discussions)
• Process definition and gap analysis
• Integration of autonomous divisions
• Communicating the change
• Planning and implementing the change
• Workforce orientation and training

Empower your workforce through targeted or customized training and enlightened management

• Applications training
• Leadership training
• Management training
• Core competencies development
• Enterprise-wide training

Serve as a strategic teaming partner (we are a woman-owned, small business)

Since these methodologies are complementary, we frequently perform several of them for any given project. For project examples that illustrate our success in these methodologies, please go to the "Our Services" page. For project examples that illustrate our success in these methodologies, please go to the "Sample Projects" page."

These methodologies can be applied across all industries and business areas, and we have used them with great success in many federal and corporate environments They include:

• IT systems integration
• Information (records) management
• Call center and customer care
• Enterprise-wide business support systems
• Defense
• Telecommunications
• Social services
• Education and training
• Finance, accounting and trust
• Computer security
• Project management
• Grants/training and technical assistance (TTA)
• Procurement and contracts
• Equipment maintenance
• Child care
• HUBZone and other set-aside programs
• Native American programs

Note: Larson Slade has well-developed relationships with tribes and native-owned large and small businesses who wish to do business with the federal government and the commercial sector. Contact us about how we can help you meet set-aside requirements and initiatives.

To see a list of our clients, please visit the "Our Clients" page.

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