Who We’ve Helped

Below is a partial list of non-profit and for profit companies, federal departments and agencies that our team members have worked with:

Federal Strategic Consulting & Business Development

  • Alion Science & Technology
  • Baker Daniels
  • Brown and Caldwell Engineering
  • Constellation/Exelon
  • Council of Governments
  • Earth & Water Law
  • Falcon Waterfree Technologies
  • Faegre
  • George Washington University
  • Logistics Specialties, Inc.
  • Northland Power
  • Sand County Foundation
  • Southern Research Institute
  • TechLaw

Technology Solutions

  • Apple: Created a live broadcast video ingest system for iTunes music events. Also created an iTunes Music events app to allow fans to play live and previously recorded streams, complete with a built-in music store.
  • CableLabs: When people watch digital cable in North America, they use Habilis (Shared Value Group is a joint venture with Habilis.) software. Along with writing the software used by millions of set-top boxes, also created the reference platform and advised on standards efforts.
  • Chemical Wedding: Advanced real-time image processing for Artemis, the indispensible filmmaking tool that is now the most used director’s viewfinder in modern filmmaking.
  • CMU Robotics Institute: Created a deep, process- and knowledge-based AI (artificial intelligence) manufacturing simulation to do flow and cost analysis of a PC (personal computer) factory – the first of its kind in the world. From incoming inventory to assembly to shipping, the system determined the exact cost of operation and suggested cost and time optimizations.
  • G-Form: Created a “sports camera” with never-miss “time travel” recording and real-time video processing for video correction, optimization and stabilization through a special lens. Prototyped a sensor system for advanced tracking and mapping, and concussion-level event detection.
  • Heuristic Media: Developed parts of the award-winning Heuristic Shakespeare, including its back-end system, in-app purchasing, secure media storage and delivery.
  • IntelliCorp: Developed a knowledge-based AI (artificial intelligence) simulation system used to simulate and measure the life support of NASA’s Space Shuttle, among other applications. Also developed knowledge representation, rule systems and truth maintenance system for the Knowledge Engineering Environment product.
  • NASA/United Space Alliance: United Space Alliance is a joint program between NASA, Lockhead and Boeing. Created a machine vision and image analysis system that analyzed the motion of personnel and machinery, such as crew bridges, to preemptively recommend maintenance based on real-world use.
  • Siemens: Developed the prototype platform for European IPTV (Internet Protocol television) and helped Siemens work with standards bodies on IPTV standards. Developed IPTV systems and standards as well as digital cable TV-based systems and standards. Helped standards efforts for CableLabs, CEA and ATIS.
  • T-Mobile: Made their Bobsled app, which was the first VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) solution for Facebook. Bobsled allowed Facebook users to call friends and leave them voice messages.
  • U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research: Researched, designed and developed K-12 STEM gamification education software and three games: natural resource conservation, emergency medicine and maritime security.
  • Warner Norcross & Judd: Development of Capsis, a trademark portfolio managment and competitive monitoring application that draws from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office trademark database and a law firm docketing system.
  • Eaton Corporation: Creation of SalesMate, an application to simplify the specification and assembly of hydraulic hose and fittings. The system considers system pressure and materials to be conveyed to identify compatible components, assembly equipment needed, step-by-step instructions and mechanical drawings.

Publishing Management – Editorial, Advertising & Circulation

  • American Nurses Association’s American Journal of Nursing Company: AJN, Maternal/Child Nursing, Nursing Outlook, Nursing Research, Geriatric Nursing, AJN Guide
  • Reed Elsevier: Nursing, Nursing Management
  • Gannett Government Media: Military Times, Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times, Marine Corps Times
  • Society of American Military Engineers: The Military Engineer, SAME’s News, SAME Annual Directory
  • McGraw Hill’s Dodge Construction Group
  • Hanley Wood: Public Works Journal, Public Works Directory
  • Route One Publishing Limited (United Kingdom): World Highways, Bridge Design & Engineering, Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Wm. O. Dannhausen Publishing: Better Roads, Gas Industries
  • Wildlife Conservation Society: Wildlife Conservation
  • Personal Communications Industry Association: Newaves
  • Baptist Hospitals & Healthcare Systems/McMurry: Vim & Vigor
  • Scripp’s Society for Science & the Public: Science News
  • Center for a Better Life: livebetter
  • Staples: Dividends
  • Coleman Company: Outernet.com
  • Dwell Media Group: Dwell
  • Magnolia Media Group: Chili Pepper

Print Management & Print Consulting

  • Orvis
  • Woolrich
  • Ducks Unlimited
  • Rodale Institute
  • Evening Post Books
  • Hoffman Publishing Group
  • Dorrance Publishing
  • Withers Publishing
  • Wild River Press
  • livebetter Magazine
  • Railroad Explorer Magazine
  • Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency
  • Hawk Mountain Sanctuar
  • Outdoor Writer’s Association
  • Drew University
  • QLM Advertising
  • Mack Truck
  • Sanofi Pasteur
  • Chubb Insurance Company

Strategic Marketing & Communications

  • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  • Falcon Waterfree Technologies
  • McMurry
  • Staples
  • Personal Communications Industry Association
  • Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers (formerly IIAA)
  • American College of Cardiology
  • Institute of Transportation Engineers
  • Society of American Military Engineers
  • Disability Rights Legal Center
  • Warner Norcross & Judd
  • Truck Accessories Group
  • X-Rite
  • Eaton Corporation
  • Todd Martin Foundation
  • Grand Rapids Bar Association Managing Partners Diversity Collaborative
  • HR Collaborative
  • Liebler Group
  • Grand Rapids Whitewater
  • Van Andel Global Trade Center

Federal Relations & Private/Public Partnerships

  • U.S. Department of Defense
  • Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • U.S. Navy
  • Office of Naval Research
  • U.S. Army
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • U.S. Marine Corps
  • U.S. Air Force
  • U.S. Coast Guard
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
  • Bureau of Land Management
  • U.S. Geological Survey
  • National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
  • NOAA Fisheries
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
  • Indian Health Services
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Office of the Surgeon General
  • U.S. Public Health Service