Public Sector

Upper Tier Municipal Government - Property & Facilities Management Department

Organizational Review and Core Competency Model

Conducted a department review and prepared a core competency model to determine best practices for the Department. This engagement involved an initial operational review, interviewing key management staff, surveying similar departments within other municipalities to benchmark best practices, and developing strategies to maximize delivery of service.

Upper Tier Municipal Government

Social Housing Asset Management Model

Prepared a Social Housing Asset Management Model for the management of the devolution of social housing assets from the Province.  This engagement includes the preparation of a social housing inventory, development of a condition assessment rating tool, conducting property assessments on approximately 870 units within 19 projects, developing lifecycle maintenance schedules, preparing a financial forecasting model which will generate a 20 year capital financing plan, and preparing a final report to Council on the state of the social housing stock.

Provincial Government

Forensic Review

Our team carried out a forensic audit of the contents and activities of selected employee laptops.  We created a snapshot backup of the hard-drives to preserve original data integrity and printed the directory tree structure to gain an understanding of how application and data files were stored on the hard drives.  We then executed an email and internet “sniffer” utility to identify all URL’s visited as well as email correspondents and performed a search and physical scan for common user-created files.  Our team used state of the art software for this engagement, which was specifically designed to retrieve deleted data.  Our final reports presented an objective presentation of the contents of the laptop’s hard-drive.

Mid Size City

Financial Software Needs Assessment

Conducted a comprehensive financial system needs assessment of a City’s financial operations.  This information will be used to prepare the detailed requirement specifications for a tender to select software vendors.  The scope of the financial system requirements includes realty tax, cash receipting, purchasing, inventory control, water utility billing, payroll and personnel processing, budget preparation, accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger and Municipal Affairs and Housing reporting.

Health Care

Review of IT Strategic Plan

Assisted with the assessment of an Information Technology (IT) strategic plan for a regionally based provincial health organization with a budget of over $1 billion and in excess of 12,000 employees. This review, and the subsequent recommendations, required the consideration that the proposed IT infrastructure was possible and able to support the organization’s business and clinical plans.

Long Term Care Facility

Feasibility Study

Prepared the financial projection portion of a Proposal to Develop Long Term Care Facility Beds.  This included a study to determine the feasibility of constructing a new facility and applying for additional long-term beds.

Federal Government

Process Management Consulting

Our consulting team has worked with several departments within the Federal Government to implement Business Management Systems, which have been registered to International Standards.  GDB consultants worked with these divisions in the areas of document development, system implementation, internal auditor training, and registration support.

Municipal Enterprises

Human Resource Consulting

GDB has conducted several Human Resource Consulting assignments for a variety of municipal enterprises including but not limited to compensation surveys, pay equity studies, job evaluations and executive search.