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NetSuite Next introduces new AI-powered capabilities and a redesigned user experience while building on the NetSuite platform organizations already use today. A focused, account-specific evaluation can help you understand how these changes may affect your environment, users, and business processes and develop a practical plan for adoption and feature enablement.
Environment Impact: Assess impacts to roles, processes, reports, customizations, integrations, and controls.
Change Management Plan: Define communications, role-based training, testing, adoption activities, and transition sequencing.
New Functionality Highlights: Present relevant capabilities, business value, dependencies, and estimated optimization effort.
Risk and Readiness Analysis: Highlight risks, decisions, prerequisites, and remediation needs before adoption.
Readiness Assessment and Scorecard: Consolidated changes, impacts, preparedness, risks, and recommended actions.
Change Management Roadmap: Sequenced communication, testing, training, deployment, and support plan.
Functionality Opportunity Menu: Prioritized capabilities, value considerations, and estimated implementation effort.
Executive Briefing: Leadership discussion of findings, recommendations, and prioritized next steps.
Preparing for NetSuite Next is an opportunity to prioritize the changes that matter most, prepare users, and build a practical roadmap for capabilities that can deliver additional value.
Fill out the form below to connect with our team and learn how a NetSuite Next Readiness Assessment can help you prepare.
GREENVILLE, South Carolina, October 28, 2026 - Elliott Davis Advisory, LLC, a top 50 accounting and consulting firm, is expanding its Human Capital advisory practice with the addition of an Executive Search practice led by Principals Brandon Bailey and Matt Barnes. The expansion strengthens the firm’s ability to help organizations make critical leadership decisions.
The Executive Search team conducts confidential, retained searches for C-suite and senior leadership roles, supported by candidate assessment and leadership evaluation, market intelligence, and talent mapping. Brandon and Matt bring more than 30 years of combined experience to the firm with a focus on middle-market private equity-backed portfolio companies and privately held businesses.
“Every organization reaches moments when leadership matters more than ever,” said Jeff Walker, Consulting Practice Leader, Elliott Davis Advisory, LLC. “With the addition of Executive Search, we can help clients identify leaders who not only have the right experience, but who can succeed within their culture and support their long-term goals.”
The addition builds on Elliott Davis’ growing Human Capital practice, which expanded earlier this year through the acquisition of AMPLOS. By combining Executive Search experience with behavioral science and performance psychology, Elliott Davis can help clients evaluate not only a candidate’s experience, but also the capabilities and characteristics needed to succeed within a specific organization.
“It is about far more than finding someone with the right experience on paper,” said Brandon Bailey, Principal, Executive Search at Elliott Davis. “It begins with understanding what an organization needs from the role, getting into the market to identify the right talent, and rigorously assessing whether a candidate has the capabilities and characteristics to thrive in that specific environment.”
Beyond Executive Search, the Human Capital team provides executive coaching, leadership development programs, interview process design and training, and cultural assessments to help clients align leadership, culture, and organizational strategy to drive growth and performance.
“This is where being part of Elliott Davis creates something meaningfully different,” said Matt Barnes, Principal, Executive Search at Elliott Davis. “We can combine the discipline and market reach of retained executive search with behavioral science and broader Human Capital expertise to position that leader and the organization for sustained success.”
Listen to the AMPLOS Growth Project episode with Brandon and Matt to learn more.
About Elliott Davis
Elliott Davis Advisory, LLC is a U.S. top 50 accounting and consulting firm. With a team of over 900 professionals across major U.S. markets and global alliance resources, the firm delivers tailored solutions to diverse businesses, organizations, and individuals. For more information, visit www.elliottdavis.com.
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Many healthcare providers assumed the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program was primarily intended for rural hospitals. As Year 2 opportunities begin to emerge, however, states are expanding eligibility, refining program design, and creating new pathways for a broader range of organizations and strategic partners.
Waiting until a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is released can leave little time to assess state priorities, establish partnerships, and align initiatives around the healthcare challenges states are trying to address.
Here’s how healthcare organizations that missed the first round of funding can prepare for new funding opportunities:
Every state participating in the program submits a project narrative and implementation strategy to CMS, providing insight into the healthcare challenges, service gaps, and transformation goals it is seeking to address.
Most state programs align around Medicaid’s strategic initiatives:
Before pursuing funding, applicants should consider how their services and capabilities support the state's specific objectives. While one state may focus on behavioral health access, another may prioritize chronic disease management, workforce development, care coordination, oral health, or telehealth expansion.
Many organizations miss opportunities simply because they learn about them too late.
State RHT websites often provide email subscriptions, newsletters, or funding alerts that notify stakeholders about upcoming funding rounds, program updates, and events, providing early visibility into future opportunities.
States frequently host virtual information sessions, town halls, and educational webinars to explain program objectives and discuss future initiatives. In some cases, these events provide insight into upcoming funding opportunities before formal announcements are released.
These sessions can help applicants better understand:
States are increasingly publishing information about grant recipients and funded initiatives, which can serve as valuable market intelligence.
Reviewing awardees can help organizations:
Just as importantly, award announcements often reveal where states believe investment can create the greatest impact, providing clues about future funding priorities.
Many rural health challenges require collaboration across healthcare ecosystems. Rural hospitals, federally qualified health centers, physician practices, behavioral health organizations, dental providers, technology vendors, and regional health systems may all play a role in advancing workforce development, sustainable access, innovative care delivery, and rural health improvement initiatives.
For example, an independent healthcare provider pursuing a cancer-related initiative may find opportunities to collaborate with a regional hospital already serving as a hub for specialty care. Similarly, community organizations and provider groups may be able to combine resources and capabilities to support broader transformation goals. To help build these relationships, consider engaging with your state’s hospital association, which can be a valuable resource for identifying potential partners and facilitating connections.
Rural health funding opportunities often involve multiple stakeholders, partnership structures, compliance considerations, and long-term implementation obligations.
States are also beginning to issue Requests for Information (RFIs) as they design future programs and funding opportunities. Participating in these processes may help organizations better understand emerging priorities and contribute ideas before grant structures are finalized.
One of the most important lessons emerging from Year 1 is that the program should not automatically be viewed as "hospital funding." Organizations that monitor state priorities may find opportunities that closely match services they already provide.
For example, a dental organization could find opportunities tied to tele-dental services, preventive care, workforce development, or community partnerships as states work to improve rural access to dental care. The same principle applies to other healthcare stakeholders whose capabilities support state transformation goals.
Elliott Davis helps healthcare organizations monitor RHT developments, evaluate funding opportunities, align initiatives with state priorities, identify strategic partnerships, and navigate the application process from initial planning through implementation.
Contact Elliott Davis to start preparing for the next round of RHT funding.
