How We're Different

We don't believe technology is the answer.

Sure, we'll tout the efficiency gains of "faster/better/cheaper" as much as the next consulting outfit—those bottom-line impacts help keep our lights on and our printers stocked with toner.

But for us, the real power of these tools doesn't come from figuring out better answers to your current questions; instead our strength lies in stepping back and assessing

what new questions can we ask now?

It's clear that an interactive map excels at enabling you to discover the where in your data. But these tools also open up opportunities to analyze your data spatially, and this helps you determine the how and why—exactly the insight you need to make your most important decisions.

If you'd like to delve deeper, we can help you decide:
  • Are there other data sets available that can be integrated spatially thereby illuminating aspects of your organization's data that are currently hidden?
  • Are there appropriate advanced statistical methods whose results can be interpreted visually—thereby revealing underlying patterns that otherwise are lost in the columns of numbers and coefficients on a spreadsheet?
Since we know that sharp analysis alone counts for little if it doesn't end up in front of the right people, we'll help you package information so that it can be delivered to key players in a format that doesn't waste their time.

Our aim is not to market programming code, data analysis, or cartographic presentation as stand-alone commodities. Rather, we deploy them in the service of a strategic sensibility that can help you both quickly solve short-term problems as well as creatively confront long-term challenges.