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Public Sector Consulting

02/06/2019

 

Novadays is a global public sector consulting company, with a wide activity in the Spanish market and presence in four continents.

 

What is consulting for the public sector?

 

Public sector consulting firms are professional services firms that advise governments and public entities in the design of their actions (public policies) and their execution (public management).

Within public sector consulting there is a wide diversity: Strategy, ICT, Human Resources, etc.

Novadays is a highly specialized public sector consulting firm. Our mission is to improve the society in which we live through consulting and, to achieve it, we study, design, implement and evaluate projects and actions that can improve society, whether they are promoted by the public sector as if they arise from the private sector but must be developed in collaboration with the public sector.

 

What do public sector consulting firms do?

 

Public sector consulting firms provide high value professional services, always adapting to the specific needs of each client and each project. Some of the professional services provided in our market are:

  • Public sector consulting firms conduct economic, social, market or technical feasibility studies for the implementation of new public policies, plans, programs or projects.
  • Public sector consulting firms design such activities or policies, as well as define the strategy and operations to be followed for their implementation or launch.
  • Public sector consulting firms carry out the necessary actions to implement these activities or to launch new plans, programs and projects, in a broad sense, executing the operational processes that have been previously designed.
  • Public sector consulting firms manage these activities, departments or offices, providing value as managers and not only as strategists.
  • As public sector consulting firms, we evaluate the activities that have been implemented, allowing us to know the results that have been achieved.

 

The importance of public service vocation in public sector consulting firms

 

In Novadays we understand that consulting should be linked to the experience and professionalism of the people who provide the services of consulting companies. Therefore, the training, both technical and skills, of these professionals is what distinguishes some consulting companies from others.

In the case of public sector consulting, to this must be added the vocation of public service. The public sector is extremely complex and a thorough knowledge of it requires experience and vocation. Public sector consultants must share with senior public sector officials and employees this vocation to improve society through public policies and actions.

If you have a vocation for public service and want to develop your career in a public sector consulting firm, Novadays offers you to be part of its team.

 

The history of public sector consulting

 

Within the framework of the trend towards high specialization that characterizes the consulting sector, and the emergence of boutique consulting firms, consulting firms specialized in professional services to governments and public administrations emerged in the early 1980s in Anglo-Saxon countries. These consulting firms combine knowledge of private management (originating in business schools) with macroeconomics and political science. Their success is based on the fact that public management pursues different objectives from those of private enterprise, and that the instruments for achieving them are equally different.

The growth of these companies is due to the increasing professionalization of public management, the spread of strategic management practices in public administrations and the awareness of the need to optimally manage available resources. Within this general framework, public managers require external support to provide them with the knowledge they need to overcome the challenges they face.

Currently, in the market of government consulting firms, several types of consulting firms can be found:

  • Political image or political consulting firms: that advise parties and candidates on their electoral campaigns and public image.
  • Lobby companies, whose activity is to represent the interests of private companies in relation to decisions made in the public sector.
  • Public policy and management companies, whose activity is to support politicians and civil servants in the implementation, execution and monitoring of their activities (projects, services, programs, plans, etc.).

 

If you want to know how your organization or your company can take advantage of the knowledge gathered by Novadays in its activity with governments and public administrations, we invite you to contact our consultants.

 

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