portility (por-'til-i-tee), n. 1. professional third-party engagement; 2. support for small to medium seaports and inland ports; 3. useful efforts resulting in immediate and lasting benefit and profitability, see utility.
Augment finite resources.
Put your plans to work.
Portility draws on decades of port-specific public sector experience to identify and eliminate drag on your port's momentum. Portility supplements and optimizes your existing workforce to build momentum toward strategic goals.
Small to medium size ports often lack the internal capacity with their current roster of FTEs to take on the details of time-consuming but necessary projects, such as policy updates, grant administration, strategic planning, organizational development, software RFP, or property management and contract updates or negotiations.
Consulting firms typically lack (internal) public port experience, which means they lack the practical, day-to-day working knowledge to break trail on plan-implementation. Master-planning and business development documents contain concepts and data that must be translated and operationalized by an overtaxed workforce and governing bodies.
High-impact or frequent turnover, especially in management, slows projects and often creates haphazard strategies that are never effectively nor fully implemented.