With many states facing extreme budget deficits that are likely to continue over the next few years, state and local government leaders are seeking new approaches to achieve greater efficiencies and boost performance in operational, financial and organizational management. When these budget constraints are combined with increasing constituent demand for new support services, runaway Medicaid costs, obsolete infrastructure, and increased security requirements of a post 9/11-world, state and local governments are operating under extreme social, financial and political pressure.

The time for quick fixes or simply dusting off old, tired playbooks has passed. State and local entities now have a unique opportunity to not only resolve some of their long-standing programmatic, operational and budgetary issues, but also to simultaneously drive increased value for constituents, make more efficient use of taxpayers' money and strive for continuous improvement.

With a dedicated team of experienced management and I/T consulting practitioners, Peak Performance Technologies’ Public Sector Services is uniquely positioned to assist state and local governments in solving complex issues and implementing innovative solutions to reduce costs and potentially generate revenue. Our professionals – qualified experts with an average of 15 to 20 years of government experience – bring a unique combination of top-tier strategy consulting skills, organizational restructuring experience, and practical industry expertise to every client situation. The majority of our consultants and leadership team have spent their careers focused on providing a broad range of management and technology consulting services for public sector customers including state and local governments. Our consultants have worked on some of the largest and most complex government implementations of ERP systems in the nation and have our firm specializes in assisting with the implementation of administrative applications within government environments.

Peak Performance Technologies has a deep understanding of the particular challenges public sector organizations face, including tough financial constraints, the need to “do more with less,” employee retention issues, complex union concerns and employee resistance to change. Additionally, public sector organizations must satisfy unique and extensive reporting requirements as well as the public’s right to know.

We can help you rise to these challenges by providing you talented resources coupled with a proven approach, based on best practices and tailored to your specific needs. Our expertise spans all aspects of financial performance measurement. This includes maximizing commitment control on budget expenditures; streamlining procurement processes; enabling employee, manager, or customer self-service applications; helping employees understand and embrace technology and process changes; and much more.

Solutions for Today’s Challenging Times

The economic conditions across the country have devastated the budgets of many state and local governments. The importance of keeping the technology up to date when compared to providing basic tax payer needs such as fire, police, Medicaid and welfare simply don’t compare. Over the course of the last three years we have watched state agencies, city and county governments, independent school districts, public sector transit and utilities make difficult decisions that almost always involve laying off staff, eliminating or reducing services to the tax payers in the district or delaying technology upgrades or refreshes that are contractually required by the hardware and/or software vendors. For this reason we have created a set of custom service offerings that we tailored to help these clients who are running PeopleSoft or Oracle products. We worked with our current and past customers to identify targeted services they could afford leveraging innovative delivery models that could reduce costs and ensure access to subject matter experts.

Examples of solutions we are providing to State and Local government customers include:

• • Part Time Project Management and Change Management
  • Flexible access to functional and technical subject matter experts at no additional cost
  • Remote implementations of new products
  • Remote upgrades
  • Creation of shared service models that combine the environments from multiple clients into a single model
  • Outsourcing of technology and/or business functions