Easley, SC 29642

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   864-671-1047

Our Approach

Our Approach

Ballastrae, Inc., was founded in 1998 with a mission of providing our clients with the best consulting service and experience while working to help maintain profitability and stability for our clients and our company as a whole. We have continued to be innovators in our industry, with an entrepreneurial philosophy that is never satisfied with the standing, for ourselves or our clients.


Building on the tradition of working for results-oriented customers, Ballastrae has continued to expand to include small and medium sized businesses and nonprofits. The business model now is inclusive of all phases of Business, Healthcare & Quality Management consulting, including data analysis and Government contracting consulting. A business and company built on a solid reputation of trust, reliability, and dependability, all while providing value and expertise for our clients

Management Consulting

We work with our customers to help them to strategically align their business functions with their company's vision, mission, and goals. As a part of our Business Management consulting services, we work with our partners in helping them to develop and fully integrate processes and controls for Process Development, Change Management, Business Strategies, Strategic Business Planning, Business Plans, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Growth and Transformation, Operations Transformation, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, and Best Practices. We strive to help your company transition to a forward-thinking and transformational business model that allows for your business to use the best data and tools available in order to be better prepared to take actions that positively influences your business and make the best organizational decisions for your company's growth. Our management consultants are trained and experienced in their field and work to help you and your company develop and implement a clear strategy that helps your company to grow and become positioned to know which emergent opportunities to pursue and to which opportunities are not best suited for your company.

Brand Strategy Consulting

At Ballastrae, Inc, we work with our customers to understand that proper branding is crucial for the success of any small and medium-sized business. We focus on helping our customers to develop "the face" of their business, by working with them to develop branding that includes, but is not limited to, logos, a transition from consumer email accounts to business email accounts, and modern website presentation. To help our customers promote themselves and products, we will also work to provide analysis, general marketing, and solutions by gathering data, performing market research, and perform internal audits and analysis to ensure the company's needs and goals are aligned.

Quality Management Consulting

At Ballastrae, Inc, we provide advisory consulting services that can help your company evaluate, progress, and make needed corrections, as well as confirm that any process improvement efforts that have been implemented will produce a positive course correction and company outcome. Our quality consultants, comprised of QMS lead auditors, have extensive experience in quality control, quality assurance services, and overall Total Quality Management (TQM) experience and expertise. Our consultants are well-versed in and are practitioners of ISO, AS9100, Z1.4, Z1.9, MIL-STD-105, and MIL-STD-1916 standards. We offer a full suite of quality support and long-term or short-term consulting services that include, but are not limited to Audit Preparation, Audit Response, Product Reviews, Annual Product Quality Review (APRs)Change Controls, Advanced Quality Planning, Company & Product/Service Investigations, Product/Service Quality complaints, Training, SOP Revision, Quality Metrics Design and Monitoring, GAP Analysis, CAPA, Design of Experiments (DOE), Measurement precision & accuracy studies, Process data analysis, Process capability studies, improvement strategies, Remediation Plans, Risk Management Assessments, Strategic Planning, Project Management, Design Principles and Practices, Lean Manufacturing & Six Sigma Principles, Quality Risk Management Approach, Data Review, Document Control review and compliance.

Federal Contracts Consulting

For small and medium-sized businesses entering into the "world" of federal contracting can be time consuming, costly, and frustrating. We work to help our customers understand the positives and negatives of entertaining the thoughts surrounding federal contracting.  Further, we work to develop strategic plans to make sure that the company is federal contract compliant, understands how to complete proper contract review, understands Request for Quotes (RFQ's) and Request for Proposals (RFPs), understands the solicitation process, how to respond to solicitations appropriately, understands Federal Business Opportunities (FedBizOpps), understands how to work with the U.S. General Services Administration properly, and understands proper procedures for government invoicing, receipt, acceptance, and property transfer. Further, we work to develop systems to help our customers to understand and become well-versed in government military standards, Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Clauses, Federal Grants and Cooperative Agreements, Cost Accounting Standards, DCAA, DCMA, IG & Civilian Agency Audit Support, Design and Implementation, Business Systems and Internal Controls Assessment, Exposure Analysis, and Cyber Security protocol.

Healthcare Consulting

Ballastrae, Inc offers a full range of services to the healthcare industry, and our consultants help healthcare organizations to position the business to deliver decisive and effective outcomes. Technological changes, advances in medications, and the improvements in medical care are allowing for a longer patient quality of life in an ever-changing industry, and our consultants are here to help guide you and your business. Our services provide your business with highly qualified consultants that are industry experts who are leaders in their respective fields in order to provide a broad range of healthcare consulting services.

 

Our services are focused on assisting Assisted Living Facilities, Nursing Homes,  Home Health Services, Retirement Communities, Short-Term & Long-term Rehabilitation services and centers, Short-Term & Long-term care facilities, small & medium-sized medical equipment sales and rental companies, and independent pharmacies, through short-term and long-term consulting agreements. We focus on helping you to improve the quality of care for your patients while helping your organization to meet compliance challenges and concerns, as well as realize and sustain operational efficiencies. Our specific healthcare services include Business Strategy & Strategic Positioning, Compliance Services (including HIPAA compliance, HITECH compliance, and NCQA), Business, Healthcare, & Market Analytics, Documentation Control, Accreditation Review, Brand Planning, Program/System evaluation, Minimum Data Set (MDS), Managed Care Organizations (MCOs),  and Patient-Driven Payment Model  (PDPM).

Data Analysis Consulting

Your business competitors are continually improving their business organizations by using readily available data for making complex business decisions. As a business competing in an ever-expanding global economy, your company needs to manage and decipher/decode your data as a tool to help propel business growth and to drive business discernment, product and service innovation process and product improvements. Our data analytics consultants leverage and utilize proven methodologies, best practices, and tools. We aim to deliver the right analytics solutions for you and your business, solutions designed to solve your business challenges and drive growth, which in turn allows your company to gain vital consumer metrics and business knowledge.

 

Our company can handle data sets of almost any complexity, and size and our broad experience allow us to understand your particular needs and to base our business relationship on your specific circumstances in helping your business with statistical modeling, forecasting, and big data sets. In order to help our consumers to gain a competitive edge over their competition and to improve business excellence, we work with our customers to understand their business and operational analytics, customer analytics, marketing analytics, and financial analytics.  We utilize, and our data analytics consultants are experienced facilitators of Minitab, SPSS, and STATA statistical software in order to manage data sets and results. We have experience with a variety of statistical methods and utilize a variety of statistical methods in our consulting work, including t-tests, ANOVAs, ANCOVAs, regression, Chi-square, Structural Equation Modeling, Linear Modeling, factor analysis, and Correlation Coefficients.

Nonprofits Consulting

Ballastrae, Inc is focused on working with small and medium-sized nonprofits that are seeking expert assistance and guidance to not only help the survival of the organization but to help grow the nonprofit. With nonprofits, we are aware that some are being managed by a group of volunteers or a dedicated group of individuals that may be underfunded and do not have the proper expertise for the proper execution of some duties and responsibilities. In these cases, we work with the nonprofits to put systems and practices in place that will allow for continued operations and success. Our consultants are experts in their fields and will work with the nonprofit to guide our nonprofit clients in helping the organization to make better-informed decisions in a collaborative environment. Our consultants will work with your nonprofit on data analytics, organizational effectiveness, developing relationships with grant writers, universities and community colleges, branding, leadership development, to understand taxes, tax implications, and tax-exempt status & maintenance requirements, Board development & retention, program management, and proper meeting protocol.