Strategic Advisory Services

Prism provides management consulting services to multi-stakeholder groups, NGOs, and other organizations with a mandate or mission related to labour, labour market, human resource planning, or industrial policy issues.  Prism helps clients with strategic planning, analysis of operational challenges, governance, and in selected cases provides management oversight to staff or projects.

Prism has over a decade of experience in facilitating industry and stakeholder engagement in consultation and evaluation initiatives with diverse client stakeholder groups. Prism’s ability to obtain a clear understanding of the needs and interests of each group rests on strong relationships with both industry and labour across Canada, and on sound methodology and research strategies aimed at identifying distinct perspectives. Prism’s experience and ability to draw in and engage vastly diverse stakeholder groups ensures all stakeholders come to the table to weigh-in on the issues at hand.

Prism also provides strategic support for trade unions. Prism has extensive experience working with trade unions and is able to understand their unique needs in economic analysis, policy review and collective bargaining support.

Five-Year Strategic Plan

Local 793, International Union of
Operating Engineers

Prism Economics facilitated a three-day workshop involving more than 70 elected leaders, staff and membership activists from Local 793.  The workshop began by considering the economic, technology, social and political trends affecting the environment in which the union operates and the needs of the Local’s members.  A consensus was then developed on priorities for the next five years.  Following completion of the workshop, Prism Economics prepared a final report and a draft strategic plan for ratification by the Local. The strategic plan will support Local 793 in expanding its membership, strengthening the skill base of its members and pursuing public policy goals to improve the economic opportunities and working conditions of the members.

Steel Industry Corporate Restructurings

USW

Prism is providing strategic advice to the USW on a variety of matters related to the challenges currently faced by the steel industry in Canada.   Falling steel prices and an increase in low cost imports is creating a very difficult business environment for steel makers in Canada, and Prism is assisting the USW in its effort to ensure that Canada maintains its steelmaking capacity during this challenging period.

Strategic Advisory Services

Automotive Policy Research Centre

Prism assisted McMaster University’s Faculty of Social Science in launching the Automotive Policy Research Centre (APRC) and continues to provide advisory services.  McMaster’s Industrial Partners in the APRC are Ford, Toyota, Unifor and the Automotive Parts Manufacturing Association.  Ken Delaney, a Partner at Prism, continues to serves as the APRC’s Industry Liaison and Special Advisor.  The APRC is examining the role that public policy plays in ensuring a competitive automotive industry.  It is committed to convening representatives of industry, labour, government and academia in policy discussions, and it is conducting research on subjects ranging from innovation policy to labour market trends, and from the role of policy in encouraging electrification of the automobile to trends in automotive trade.