OUR SERVICES
Every business generates data, but not all utilize it effectively. That’s where we come in. We help you sift through the clutter, analyze patterns and relationships, and focus on what matters most to your organizations. This enables you to address your specific challenges, make data-informed decisions, and drive more intelligent strategies.
MARKET
ASSESSMENT
Linear A provides deep expertise in market evaluation, demographic studies, gap analyses, site selection, and more across all industries.
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Linear A brings a full range of services and analytic capabilities when evaluating market conditions. We leverage various interactive tools and software, including Tableau, Power BI, ESRI, and more, to ensure we use the right tool for the right task. Below are examples of our Market Assessment Studies:
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Demographic Forecasting
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Drive-time Studies
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Target Location Analysis
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Site Selection
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Migration Studies and Leakage Studies
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Supply + Demand Gap Analysis
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Distance Decay Studies
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Interactive Mulit-Layered Heatmaps
DATA VISUALIZATION + STORYTELLING
Linear A offers robust interactive data visualization, enabling exploratory and explanatory analytics.
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Linear A is uniquely positioned as an expert in data, analytics, and visualization. Our team understands data requires integrity, flow, intentionality, and context to tell a story. This results in both data literacy and visual literacy.
There is an art (qualitative) and a science (quantitative) to providing insight, and we strive to find the correct balance. We strive to create nimble and dynamic solutions overlaid with context and critical thought.
Our process is iterative and bi-directional. We embrace nuance, context, and the level of detail required to appropriately problem-solve.​
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STRATEGIC PLANNING
Linear A offers in-depth strategic planning services rooted in data analytics.
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Strategic planning aligns directly with our passion for problem-solving using analytics while providing insight by telling meaningful stories with data.
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In our view, one cannot guide and inform a strategic plan without a well-defined problem, context, nuance, empathy, data, analysis, and well-communicated results.
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Linear A believes this philosophy is foundational to any strategic plan, and we help guide our clients by gathering the applicable data, interviewing key stakeholders, analyzing the data provided, and providing insights to guide the strategic framework alongside our clients.
MASTER PLAN ANALYTICS
Master Planning Analytics is a core competency of our firm. Our joint analytic expertise and advisory services offer unparalleled insight into facility planning.
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Our approach to master planning analytics is both nuanced and highly specific to our role in each project. Because our firm’s expertise is rooted in facility master planning AND strategic/service line planning, our line-of-sight bridges the insight gap that other firms cannot. We translate strategic planning analytics by contextually pivoting data, allowing planners to block/stack, size, program, and create adjacencies in a facility solution.
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We are experts in understanding facility planning needs while simultaneously working with key stakeholders to ensure the external factors, operating assumptions, segregation of patient type/flow, and other critical characteristics are considered in the planning.
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We also created a nimble and Flexible Key Planning unit (KPU) toolkit to empower all planners, strategists, and analysts. See knossos.solutions for more information.
SERVICE LINE PLANNING
Linear A offers a comprehensive understanding of service line planning and physician recruitment planning.
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Linear A believes understanding our clients’ existing landscapes, coupled with internal strategic initiatives, helps drive any relevant service line planning effort. Our approach includes listening to learn, objectively analyzing data, gathering the appropriate subject matter experts, quantifying measurable output, and thinking critically about the problem to provide insight.
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Our service line planning includes:
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Traditional Service Line Planning
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Market Share Analysis
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Leakage Studies
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Medical Staff Development Planning
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Physician Supply and Demand Studies
FRACTIONAL ANALYST
Linear A offers our expertise as a fractional FTE to provide deep expertise, without the significant investment of hiring new staff.
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What: A Fractional Analyst is a dedicated resource who conducts daily data analysis functions tailored to your needs. These functions may include organizing datasets, synthesizing complex data, performing data forensics, conducting analytics, and building dashboards.
How: A Fractional Analyst performs various analytic functions, creates data visualization tools, and provides insight through telling stories with data. Our team specializes in these skills.
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A dedicated multi-skilled team
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Appropriate alignment of expertise
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Gap-fill existing needs
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‘In-house’ resource without overhead or
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Department and industry agnostic
BENCHMARKING
Most organizations have vast amounts of data stored within their systems, servers, software, on the cloud, and on individual computers. Unfortunately, most of these data are not leveraged to their fullest potential due to a lack of time, resources, budget, or wherewithal.
We are subject matter experts in data collection, analytics, benchmarking, and visualization. We layer our approach to data and analytics with our clients’ strategic planning to maximize favorable outcomes since benchmarking efforts are often linked to broader strategic initiatives.
OPERATIONAL ANALYTICS
We help our clients leverage their internal data and, if appropriate, connect it with external information to drive better decision-making opportunities. Whether it's operations, finance, marketing, or another departmental area, we work to take your data and wrap it in best-of-class processes, analytics, and visualization. Our goal is to empower our clients to leverage connected and meaningful information, remove friction, and thereby enhance their operations.
GIS MAPPING
We specialize in GIS Mapping by layering multiple datasets creating dynamic models. Our drive-time studies, route optimization, proximity analysis, accident studies, and more deliver insight across multiple industries
We join our GIS spatial analyses with our interactive dashboard to compile robust and dynamic solutions.