Sample Project Summaries

One-Stop Delivery System for Workforce Development. KEB was the lead consultant for two state agencies in Illinois regarding implementation of the Illinois One-Stop Career Center Network, a statewide effort to consolidate employment services to employers and job seekers at a single location in each local area. Acting as the implementation management consultant to the bi-agency implementation team, KEB determined implementation management needs and designed and administered a formal and multi-faceted implementation management structure to meet those needs. This structure encompassed not just implementation of these centers, but also 18 separate technology initiatives to support this consolidation.

Employee Commute Options Program. KEB conceptualized and implemented a strategy related to Illinois’ obligation to implement an Employee Commute Options (ECO) program under the Clean Air Act. (Illinois was being threatened with the loss of over $700 million in Federal transportation funding because of a lack of progress toward implementation.) KEB provided leadership to development of a multi-faceted implementation strategy to achieve compliance with Federal requirements. The project included coordination and oversight of all aspects of the implementation strategy, including coordination of technology development, communication plans and staff training activities.

Gaming License Requirements. KEB was engaged to help a gaming regulator improve and restructure the process by which current riverboat gaming licensees seek renewal of their existing licenses, and the information and basis on which relicensing decisions are made. The project included a thorough review of the process through which requests for license renewal are handled, as well as an analysis of how information relevant to the renewal process is gathered and used for decision-making. KEB developed a plan to re-engineer the process through which riverboat licensees seek license renewal. A key deliverable of the engagement was a formal plan which re-engineered the process of renewing riverboat licenses.

Documentation of Processes and Systems to Comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. KEB assisted a $4 billion insurance company with implementation of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a federal law that has a significant impact on corporate governance, disclosure and accounting practices in the private sector. KEB provided documentation of business services, investment processes and information technology systems and identified significant business risks associated with each segment.