Our Services

Description

Even the best-run programs can be easily derailed by shrinking budgets, increased scrutiny, and inflexible internal structures. Our experienced Project Management Professionals (PMP) employ industry and Corner Alliance's proven methods to ensure that your project stays on budget and on time, and delivers the promised results. We emphasize the use of tools and dashboards to help visualize project and program progress, ensuring that stakeholders easily digest accomplishments and understand your path forward.

Case Study

Corner Alliance specializes in developing programs from their inception and establishing the right-sized tools and mechanisms to make managing the program and its complexity successful. For one Federal client, when faced with possible program audits and an inability to convey the importance of the program, Corner Alliance developed the monitoring plans, trackers, filing systems, and meeting cadence to keep the program on track. We simultaneously built an online program dashboard to make understanding the status of the program and its desired outcomes simple. The online program focused on streamlined, data-centered reporting. This demonstrates the influence and effect of the program for stakeholders nationwide to be shared with organizational leadership and the public.

Service Offering

• Project planning 

• Risk mitigation and risk management

• Project management and execution

• Portfolio optimization 

• Project monitoring and control

• Project reporting and metrics tracking

Description

Corner Alliance will help you build a fierce community of advocates— the right people to build and share the right solutions— to solve your organization’s biggest problems. When Corner Alliance is championing your cause, it inspires multiple other champions to join it too. Corner Alliance ensures your projects reflect user requirements to maximize relevance and impact. Starting every solution with the people who have believed in you from the beginning, your stakeholders, increases program buy-in, ownership, and self-promotion. You have a network of resources to lean on for research, funding, commercialization, soundboarding, testing, piloting, or collaboration. From a braintrust of a few experts to a digital experience of a thousand participants, we can ensure that every solution starts with your stakeholders to deliver on your mission. 

Case Study

Corner Alliance supported a federal R&D client in pivoting from an annual, multi-day, in-person stakeholder conference with more than 500 participants to an entirely digital experience with more than 1,000 participants, 45 technology demonstrations, and 70+ on-demand sessions. Using clever graphic design and innovative platform integration to include elements of virtual and augmented reality, we supported our clients by facilitating engaging and high-impact experiences in the modern, virtual world. Our client and attendees shared that while the shift to an entirely virtual experience initially felt limiting, the end result was a massive increase in attendees due to its ease of accessibility. On-demand sessions ensure stakeholders and participants have even more access to content to move their mission forward. 

Service Offering

• Virtual, in-person, and hybrid conferences 

• Literature review,market research, and requirements analysis

• Focus groups, interviews, and surveys

• Facilitated meetings

• Event design and meeting logistics 

• Dashboard reporting

• Stakeholder tracking

Description

Corner Alliance has administered $2 billion+ across 2,000+ awardees with an ‘audit-proof’ approach spanning economic resilience and broadband communications programs. Our demonstrated capabilities of diligent grants monitoring and administration have helped to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse. We built capabilities across the nation in support of key stakeholders; and helped drive decision-making across the government. We offer services designed to provide a set of accelerators aimed at decreasing costs through process efficiency, time savings, and proven tools and templates. The accelerators reduce program risks, increase project efficiency, and improve overall quality. We are experts across the full lifecycle of grants management offering program development strategies, grants administration, grants closure processes, and everything in between to help you successfully launch your grant program.

Case Study

A federal policy office was tasked with developing a multi-million dollar grant program from the ground up to support the rollout of nationwide broadband. The program touched every state and territory in the Nation and involved coordination across a variety of federal agencies and stakeholders. Corner Alliance led the development of the program from initial conception through award and now grant monitoring and close-out. Corner Alliance has worked with federal staff to make sure the program easily passed multiple audits while achieving the outcomes required by the program and its stakeholders.

Service Offering

• Grants program development

• Grants management system development

• Grant application eligibility and programmatic support

• Technical assistance

• Post-award grant monitoring and evaluation

• Reporting, metrics, and data management

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Description

In an increasingly mobile and information-driven age, the demand for immediate, query-satisfying content is at an all-time high amongst the general public. Government leaders need to meet this demand to remain a relevant voice of authority. Corner Alliance applies professional copywriting, editing, and graphic design services to ensure your organization's core messages are not lost in the shuffle. We develop easily digestible outreach materials and leverage targeted communications strategies to ensure your message has a resounding impact on your target audience. Our digital communications strategies produce measurable results to demonstrate how effective your message is.

Case Study

A federal scientific agency charged with spurring innovation for their customers was struggling because program managers and leaders were unable to clearly explain the impact of their work, the problems being solved, or its value in a time of shrinking budgets and greater expectations. Corner Alliance worked with agency leadership to launch a coordinated communications campaign , including a refreshed social media presence, podcasts, blogs, media interviews, and web updates. We worked with the client to build an efficient system for writing and updating content using plain language techniques. We helped the client also launch an aggressive stakeholder outreach plan to build relationships with new audiences and secure speaking engagements for leadership and program managers. These efforts, across public and private sector communities, increased the organization's visibility and credibility nationwide.

Service Offering

• Social media strategy

• Communications strategy

• Media relations

• Web design

• Graphic design

• Video editing and production

Description

Commercial research and development (R&D) has progressively become a large share of national R&D spending. As a result, leading government R&D agencies are accessing and influencing commercial R&D efforts to meet the needs of their customers and stakeholders.  Corner Alliance helps your organization build and implement strategies to maximize the impact of limited government R&D funds.  We facilitate access to leading industry innovators for the highest quality solutions. We analyze the development path of technologies, as well as, current and planned research activities of other actors for the most up-to-date results. We identify opportunities for the government to maximize the impact of its investments.

Case Study

A federal lab was charged with building an R&D investment program with a budget of several hundred million dollars from scratch in a short time frame. Corner Alliance worked with the lab's end customers to gather product requirements and build partnerships within the industry. This enabled the creation of roadmaps outlining the development path and gaps in the relevant technology areas. These roadmaps used a consistent, criteria-based investment strategy to prioritize technology gaps. They also ensured that R&D funds were aligned with areas where the government could have the highest impact on key stakeholder needs.

Service Offering

• Requirements gathering

• Customer validation

• Technology roadmapping

• Strategy development

• R&D strategy assessment

Description

Many federal agencies and programs face dwindling morale and ineffective, deeply rooted cultures. These cultures can become substantial barriers to achieving your organization's mission. Corner Alliance helps you shift gears by empowering you to proactively implement solutions that revitalize the dynamics of your team, internal structures, and programmatic goals. We run organizational assessments, bring knowledge, and provide actionable recommendations.

Case Study

We support a federal cybersecurity client with organizational assessment and business process improvement to ensure the division is organized to support maximum results and efficiency to implement a new organizational structure. Our team has conducted rigorous capability assessments, organizational structure analyses across offices, legal authority studies, and culminates in a strategic roadmap and an expansion recommendations briefing. With an approach grounded in business process improvement best practices and active stakeholder engagement, we’re supporting our clients to navigate a tremendous time of change and achieve results.

Service Offering

• Business process improvement

• High performing culture development

• Meeting facilitation and off-sites

• Change management

• Leadership and team development

Description

Justifying the value of your program investments remains more critical than ever given increased federal COVID-19 relief spending and oversight priorities from the Administration. In response to increased pressure, we support federal programs to enact innovative analysis methods that demonstrate mission alignment, impact delivered, and accountability to the public trust. Our approach defines agency success to reflect stakeholder requirements, identifies program strengths and weaknesses through rigorous data analysis, and connects program activities to compelling output metrics that resonate with intended audiences. We equip our clients with better insights to make data-driven decisions and ensure the long-term viability of programs. 

Case Study

Corner Alliance supports a federal R&D agency focused on energy efficiency with a retrospective impact analysis to quantify the economic, energy, and environmental return on investment (ROI) of software tools modeling building energy consumption. We engage with experts and stakeholders to understand the perceived value, application, and impact of the agency’s products and services as applied to the development of energy codes, utility incentive programs, and other non-government energy efficiency initiatives. The quantitative research and analysis grounded in rigorous social science methods enable our team to calculate the energy savings, monetized health benefits, and net present economic value attributable to this agency’s energy efficiency investments over a 20 year time horizon.

Service Offering

• Internal and external impact assessment

• Performance measurement

• Investment justification

• Return-On-Investment (ROI) analysis

• Competitive benchmarking

• Internal process evaluation and improvement

Description

Broadband access and mobile data have revolutionized how we live and do business both in the commercial sector and in the government. These technologies have been and will continue to be the backbone of how the government delivers services and operates in the field.Rapid technical advancements and industry convergence demands that government work even closer with its commercial partners to tap into new capabilities and to drive innovation. Corner Alliance helps your organization shape your broadband and emerging technology strategies. We design options, analyze impacts, and oversee wireless networks to help your organization better serve your customers and stakeholders.

Case Study

A federal agency was tasked with creating a nationwide broadband network for a dispersed set of customers. Given the enormous scope of the task and the limited resources available to implement it, the government required a creative and dedicated team with deep knowledge of the wireless ecosystem. Corner Alliance provided expert engineering advice and guidance covering network deployment strategy, radio access network (RAN) design, device analysis and selection criteria, and the development and provisioning of applications and services.

Service Offering

• Network strategy and design

• Technical assistance

• RAN engineering

• Wireless device engineering and analysis

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