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IT Management and Staff Outsourcing

We have worked with several institutions in providing short and long-term replacements for IT management and staff. In one institution, we replaced the entire management team, including the CIO and are working to improve the effectiveness of the college’s IT staff, who remained employees. In other cases, we’ve provided technical staff for long term assignments […]

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Business and Technology Continuity Planning

Given today’s uncertain world events, it pays to be prepared for everything from a small, local disruption to a full scale campus or community disaster. We provide a proven methodology to think about the key institutional process priorities, the safety of students, faculty and staff and the communications needed to restore critical IT and IT-enabled

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Project Management Office (PMO)

We have worked with several institutions in establishing Project Management Offices to manage major ERP and Infrastructure projects. PMO’s are most effective when a school has a large multi-year project or several major projects. We provide consulting support for establishing a project management office’s structure, metrics and skills planning. Additionally, we have providing on-going project

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Product/Package and Consulting Selection and Acquisition

We focus on helping clients in all phases of selecting and acquiring a new product or software package and the associated consulting services. We have done engagements for many products/technologies, including: VoIP, ERP, SIS, LMS, CRM and many others. We approach these projects as a multi-phased effort: Requirement Definition to define the RFP requirements to

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Strategic IT Assessment and Planning

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), strategic IT planning, vendor/package selection, peer benchmarking, institutional visioning, strategy development and strategic initiative selection, prioritization

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