Blue Ridge team members have conducted a number of executive and managerial studies. Several examples include:

Evaluation of the impact of various allocation methodologies on a company's ability to create a sustainable competitive advantage for its non-regulated business, while at the same time providing a fair and equitable distribution of costs to the regulated business.

Blue Ridge has performed a number of benchmarking studies. Benchmarking is a useful tool to determine whether an organization is achieving "best in class" status. Blue Ridge excels at providing our clients with comparative analyses.

Our team has provided strategic planning assistance. In the fast-changing environment of today's electric/utility industry, strategic planning remains an important activity for company executives and managers. However, creating the plan and implementing it are two unique aspects - a fact that many companies fail to recognize. Some companies create excellent plans but lack the necessary implementation and oversight skills for the strategic initiative to succeed. Others are proficient implementers, but fail to recognize fully the weaknesses, threats, and significant opportunities whose identification, organization, and control could help to achieve an increased, sustainable competitive advantage.

Blue Ridge's approach simplifies the process to maximize the benefits of the strategic planning process. Our commonsense approach ensures that the planning process focuses on the client's priorities and most significant opportunities to create a sustainable competitive advantage. At the same time, we ensure the accountability of the implementation process, making certain that performance measures are in place and monitored.