Experience
Sterling Associates, LLP, was established in 1988 and has extensive management and consulting experience with a diverse and comprehensive background. Over 23 years of continuous consulting experience, and outstanding client results and references distinguishes us among our peers. We are extremely proud of our client partnerships and our contributions to their success. You can be assured that the entire Sterling Associates team will undertake each project with a rigorous attention to detail, a focus on excellence and a strong client service ethic.
As a team, Sterling Associates consultants are unparalleled in their reasonable approach, honest evaluations, practical recommendations and expertise to help you identify and implement improvements. We judge our success by our clients’ success - plain and simple. If you talk to our clients, you’ll also find that the quality of our processes – building trust and confidence with executives and staff, and considering your specific environmental influences, matches the quality of our products—evidence-based results and advice presented thoughtfully, clearly and on-time.
The following is a partial list of projects and engagements, reflecting our broad array of experience.
- Quality assurance on over 50 major projects, involving information technology efforts, feasibility studies and program implementations, including multi-million dollar initiatives affecting thousands of employees or business clients.
- Risk management reviews and analysis for enterprise programs with high public visibility and economic impact, involving multiple organizations and effecting thousands of citizens and public employees.
- Facilitation or work sessions/meetings and development of products for tasks forces, executive groups, and project teams involving statewide policy, program and law changes, process and organization strategies, and business and technical requirements.
- Complex cost allocation reviews with strategies for simplification, increased credibility and clarity, better understanding of total costs, and opportunities for organizational, policy and process improvements.
- Rate and fee setting analysis for statewide programs impacting many businesses and professions.
- Executive consulting and support with a number of private and public executives, related to program and project success factors, organization and service strategies, and funding processes.
- Resource utilization studies for large organizations, conducting time studies, facilitating requirements, training staff, developing comprehensive reports on results, and providing automated tools to conduct “what if” analyses and resource allocation.
- System requirements definition for financial systems or sub-systems of state entities and local government.
- Project salvage and management for a world-wide commercial software implementation.
- Facilitation and development of strategic business and information technology plans for large, diverse organizations.
- Organizational, effectiveness and service reviews, including outsourcing analyses for large and small programs, and IT divisions.
- Production support infrastructure review and production environment stabilization recommendations for a large distributed server environment.
- Compensation surveys for various organizations including law enforcement, attorneys and a variety of service providers.