Give your biggest problem the attention it deserves.
JANSON Research & Strategy provides senior strategic capacity for organizations facing consequential problems, decisions, and opportunities.
We investigate what is happening, determine what the evidence supports, and build a practical path forward — without pulling your team away from running the organization.
Tell us what you’re trying to solve →Strategic capacity without permanent overhead.
Important strategic work rarely arrives when your team suddenly has extra time.
Questions that require research, cross-functional investigation, independent judgment, and sustained attention can linger for months — not because they are unimportant, but because nobody has the capacity to make them their primary job.
JANSON does.
We take ownership of the investigation, work with your team to gather the institutional knowledge only they have, and return with an evidence-backed recommendation and practical roadmap.
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When should you bring us in?
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Most organizations recognize at least one of these.
If the problem has been open for months, it may be time to give it an owner.
Tell us what you’re trying to solve →Independent strategy without a predetermined answer.
JANSON does not sell software, platforms, staffing, or implementation products that need to become part of the recommendation.
That matters.
The objective is not to add more.
The objective is to find the most effective path forward.
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How the work moves from question to action.
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Implementation support is available separately when appropriate.
The engagement
Strategic Assessment & Roadmap
One consequential question, researched properly and answered clearly.
JANSON takes responsibility for investigating the issue, evaluating the realistic options, and developing a recommendation your organization can act on.
Most engagements begin at $15,000.
Larger questions involving extensive original research, multiple stakeholder groups, or broader market analysis are scoped individually.
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Three kinds of problems we are built to take on.
Research rigor. Strategic judgment. Directly led by Dr. Jones.
JANSON Research & Strategy is led by Dr. Elisa Janson Jones, a researcher and strategist with more than 25 years of experience spanning business strategy, organizational design, operations, education, technology, and entrepreneurship.
Dr. Jones personally leads every engagement — from defining the question and designing the research through analysis, recommendation, and final roadmap. Clients get senior strategic attention without the layers of a traditional consulting team.
- Research establishes what is true.
- Strategy determines what to do about it.
- And the recommendation has to work inside the organization that actually exists.
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Find the cause. Make the move.
Bring the decision you’re facing, or the problem that keeps coming back. The first conversation is diagnostic: what you’re actually solving for, what evidence would settle it, and whether we’re the right people to help.
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