1. Argus Insights, Inc.
A Window Into Technology Markets
The Cus tom Intelligence Firm
www.ArgusInsights.com
Public Policy and Analytic Services Example
Issues Management and Products Work
Gaining public support for a new • Issue assessment • Initiating a Public Issues
technology can have as much of • Issues management strategy Management Program
an impact on its success as the formulation and planning • An Industry Guide for State
management of nance, opera- Legislators
tions and marketing. Many new • Qualitative research and
and emerging technologies raise benchmarking • Regulation, Deregulation and
profound ethical or social issues • Legislative and regulatory Self-Regulation in the Service
that can outpace society’s capac- policy analysis Industries: Lessons Learned
ity for creating consensus. • White papers, policy state • Essential Health Care: What
ments and backgrounders Is It?
Synthesizing knowledge about
• Articles for publication • A Chartbook on Health Care
critical public issues enables
Quality in the US
companies to proactively manage
their external environment and Doug McCarthy, the Argus • HIPAA Privacy Rule: Sum-
gain the support of stakeholders Insights’ lead for this subject area, mary and Impact Analysis
through product introduction is a Yale graduate with an MBA
• Benchmarking Corporate
tactics, education, research, out- and over 15 years experience in
Political Action Committees
reach and advocacy. public and private sector policy,
research and management. He • Measuring Strategic Value in
The current explosion of infor- was formerly director of public Corporate Philanthropy
mation and ongoing promotion policy and research for a Fortune
200 corporation and was a public Argus Insights is a full-service
of ideas in the public sphere
policy fellow at the University custom intelligence rm. Drawing
demands an equally rigorous
of Minnesota’s Humphrey Insti- on our diverse team of profes-
effort to identify and make sense
tute of Public Affairs. sionals, we supply the information
of critical themes.
and analysis to make business-
Argus Insights provides logical Public issues we have addressed critical decisions with condence.
and compelling insights that include health information We have signicant expertise
take account of the inevitable technology, regulatory reform, examining emerging technologies
complexities of a topic while quality-of-care, consumer infor- in the biological, material, com-
remaining focused on macro- mation and privacy. Our work puter, and physical sciences,
level implications for business in this area has appeared in lead- having completed hundreds of
and society. ing journals and has been used on market assessments in these areas.
Capitol Hill, for media briengs Our clients include national labo-
and as Internet content. ratories, universities, corporations,
technology transfer specialists, and
funding agencies.
Contact: Doug McCarthy, (970) 259-7961, doug@argusinsights.com
Argus Insights, Inc., 1309 E. 3rd Ave., Suite 14, Durango, Colorado 81301
