We help public, private and not-for-profit institutions - whether they are research and community colleges, or K-12 school districts - meet the dynamic changes taking place in the education marketplace. Having worked with over three dozen primary, secondary and higher education institutions, we understand the unique needs of districts, campuses and multi-campus systems. This experience proves invaluable when implementing the technology, organization and process changes that accompany major IT initiatives within educational institutions. Our combination of industry experience, technology and business skills and experiences are critical to the success of any school, college and university planning and implementation project.
For our education industry clients, we have focused our resources in several key areas:
We have worked with several major education clients to develop long term plans for transforming their educational and research environments to address long term institutional goals. We supported a major university in defining the skills and capabilities of their graduates for the year 2010 and developed a long-term plan to transform the university so that it can support the required educational outcomes.
We have led engagements with a wide variety of colleges, universities and state higher education systems in helping them understand how to more effectively use IT to achieve their institutional goals. This work has frequently included IT assessments (People/Process/Technology), vendor/package selection, peer benchmarking, institutional visioning, strategy development and strategic initiative selection, prioritization and planning.
We have led, and participated in, a wide variety of engagements implementing PeopleSoft solutions - Human Resource, Financial and Campus Solutions. Our clients have been community colleges, private and public universities as well as universities with multiple campuses.
We have worked with several institutions in providing short and long-term replacements for IT management and staff. In one institution, we have replaced the entire management team, including the CIO and are working to improve the effectiveness of the college's IT staff, who remain employees. In other cases, we've provided technical staff for long term assignments to support specific areas of need. These have included: ERP developers, help desk staff, Network Operations Center staff, security support and many other areas.
We have worked with a variety of campuses in assessing the IT staff needs of the campus and the IT resources available across the campus. We use this information to realign the roles and responsibilities of the IT staff and have helped to refocus managers and employees to their new roles and, when necessary, to a new organizational culture.
We have worked with several clients in evaluating their existing 'legacy' administrative and student systems and developing recommendations on potential migration paths for meeting their current and future business systems and stakeholder requirements. Alternative approaches may range from re-building old legacy systems to completely replacing these major systems.
We have helped several institutions develop academic IT strategies and plans, focusing on defining and measuring appropriate outcomes. We have also developed other Web based projects for collaborative environments.
We have worked with many schools in improving the flow of the grants and contract processes, organization and technology. We worked with a major research university to develop a new sponsored research management system. Our requirements definition work focused on both the pre-award and post-award processes and included automated contract compliance checking and auditing.
The backgrounds of our team include successful engagements with a wide variety of education clients, including:
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