Strategic leadership connects creativity with innovation to achieve real results.
To serve, survive, and thrive, the stewards of our nation's infrastructure must consistently produce strategic results amid relentless change, competitive pressures, and infrastructure strained beyond its intended years and purposes.
Transportation
From board room to hard hat, Avant IMC understands the challenges and needs of the transportation industry and sees its clients through from strategy to solutions.
Avant IMC delivers the comprehensive expertise needed to align organizational goals, workforce proficiency and productivity, stakeholder involvement, financial resources, and the nuts and bolts of project prioritization and execution.
Avant IMC works with departments of transportation, transit authorities, metropolitan and rural planning organizations, and other transportation entities to address pressing challenges such as:
- Securing adequate and reliable funding
- Developing appropriate staffing levels, skill sets, and organization
- Enhancing accountability
- Implementing advanced technologies
- Addressing the backlog of aging infrastructure
Environmental
In today’s complex environment, operational challenges can delay and prevent the continual improvement of environmental infrastructure. Industry professionals face tough decisions in managing their daily operations—amid strict regulatory requirements, increasing costs, and aging infrastructure.
Avant IMC is committed to helping the stewards of our environmental resources protect and remediate the impacts on our natural environment. Our consultants, engineers, and other environmental professionals have decades of relevant experience providing cohesive management strategies, comprehensive research and analysis, and complete organizational assessments.
Avant IMC takes a systematic approach to advancing the operations of our environmental resources. We assist development districts, county and municipal governments, and other environmental agencies in:
· Identifying and securing needed resources
· Mainstreaming strategic plans with existing programs, systems, and communication processes
· Developing appropriate management structures, human capital skills and customized training
· Overcoming obstacles to organizations productivity
Water and Wastewater
Avant IMC provides the organizational and strategic guidance water and wastewater authorities need to operate efficiently, remain financially strong, and provide competitive, quality service. Avant IMC's water and wastewater engineers and other environmental professionals take that strategic insight a step further, providing experienced assessment of infrastructure needs, guidance in project development and delivery, and oversight of outsourced operations.
Avant IMC assists water and wastewater clients in addressing challenges such as:
- Upgrading historic often century-old infrastructure
- Meeting intense demand generated by residential and commercial development
- Complying with increasingly strict water quality mandates
- Establishing appropriate rate structures
- Overcoming organizational inefficiencies
Avant IMC understands the unique position of water and wastewater utilities, which provide a public service, yet function much like a private enterprise. We assists clients in keeping their business and the water running smoothly.
Regional Development and Strategic Planning
A well developed strategic plan is a comprehensive tool that governments can use to define and manage their vision for the future. They foster meaningful dialogue through the development of objectives that address business capabilities, economic development, and investment choices.
Avant IMC has performed strategic planning and development services for a number of local municipalities, counties, and state departments across the nation. Our services include:
· Facilitating public outreach to stakeholders and focus groups
· Conducting research, including quantitative data collection, organizational assessments, and expert analysis
· Developing strategic choices through group consensus on goals, feasibility options, contextual solutions, and priorities for decision making
· Identifying innovative funding sources in an environment of fiscal scarcity