After 13 years of management consulting and four different consulting firms, Jaime Fitzgerald decided the time was right to start his
own firm. He did just that in 2005 when he launched Fitzgerald Analytics, a New York-based multi-service firm specializing in analytics, information management and information-based strategy.
Fitzgerald says the business model is a unique blend of time-tested strategy consulting together with several “next generation” capabilities, which are fast-evolving in today’s digital era, such as analytics, information-driven transparency, management of data and information as assets, and the innovative use of emerging technologies.
“We are not your father’s strategy consulting firm, although we respect the traditional model and have borrowed from it,” Fitzgerald says. “We have kept the elements of that model that work, but added new components to better meet the needs of clients today.” That client work is what helped land the firm on the Best Small Firms to Work For list. The firm’s best survey scores were in the area of The Job.
Fitzgerald says the nature of the work contributes to those high scores. “We enable strategy and execution using best-in-class analytics and our results are unusually measurable,” he says. “As a result, we avoid some of the pitfalls of traditional consulting jobs, and achieve the thrill of enhancing client results using new tools and methods.”
One other possible factor for the high employee satisfaction rates, he says, is Fitzgerald’s commitment to helping the social sector. “We believe passionately that our ‘Data to Dollars’ specialization also applies to helping nonprofits get the most impact possible for each previous dollar of funding,” he says. “As a result, 100 percent of our clients have hired us multiple times.”
