EMSI Consulting Services

Sometimes our clients need more flexibility than we can provide with our standard reports and software. For those situations, they can turn to EMSI's expert consulting services to get the advice, analysis, and customized services they need to make informed decisions. For more information on reports and consulting, please contact us.

Data-Driven Reports

Armed with the best data and most accessible tools available, EMSI can deliver powerful, cost-effective, data-driven reports that examine regional workforce issues, industry recruitment scenarios, policy impacts, and more. Our staff of senior economists, data analysts, and technical writers can guide and produce the report that you need - from specifications to finished product. These are just a few of the elements we can include in our reports:

• State of the workforce (job growth/decline, location quotient, shift share, demographics)
• Labor pool composition and skill gap analysis
• Return on investment analysis of training programs
• Industry and occupation projections
• Economic impact scenarios
• Industry cluster analysis

Recent Projects

Here are a few examples of projects that we have recently completed.

Economic Analysis of the Walla Walla Wine Cluster: Past, Present, and Future

Client: Walla Walla Valley Wine Cluster Economic Development Program

Walla Walla Community College has received a grant from the Washington Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development to study the impact of the Walla Walla wine industry cluster on the local economy. The wine industry cluster includes vineyards, production facilities, and local equipment, machinery, and supply services in Walla Walla County, Columbia County, and the Northern portion of Umatilla County. The focus of this project is to study and determine the impact of these interconnected industries on the Walla Walla Valley. This project also seeks to examine how the wine cluster is connected to other local clusters such as arts, food, and tourism. The end objective of this project is to work with the wine industry and our regional partners to identify policies and mechanisms that can promote economic development and address wine industry issues in the Walla Walla area.

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BioNetwork Economic Impact Report

Client: NCCCS BioNetwork

BioNetwork is a statewide initiative that connects community colleges across North Carolina, providing specialized training, curricula and equipment, to develop a world-class workforce for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and life sciences industries. All Community Colleges serving the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sector are part of BioNetwork.

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Custom Modeling and Analysis

EMSI's senior economists, Dr. M. Henry Robison and Dr. Kjell Christopherson, are world-renowned specialists who have pioneered several of the analytical techniques used in their fields, and who have consulted for many regional, national, and international agencies and organizations. For example:

• From 1999-2005, Dr. Robison worked with the New Jersey Institute of Technology to construct the regional economic impact component of the "Transportation, Economic, & Land-Use System" (TELUS) model (http://www.transportation.njit.edu/telus/).
• From 2000-2001, Drs. Robison and Christophersen jointly developed the ground-breaking SEIM (socioeconomic impact model) for community and technical colleges, and formed a separate company (CCbenefits Inc.) to implement it. This unprecedented model estimates the full impacts of colleges, taking into account not only college operations but also the beneficial social, fiscal, and economic effects (in dollar terms) of postsecondary education.
• In 1999-2000, Dr. Robison provided written and oral testimony in the case of Kansas v. Colorado in the matter of the Arkansas River Dispute, case heard under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court (with Drs. N. K. Whittlesey and J. R. Hamilton).
• In 2001, Dr. Christophersen consulted for Winrock International as team leader for an economic analysis of natural forest management activities in West Africa.