Higher Education

For better or worse: Higher Ed is changing

The core issues for higher education center around financial challenges—diminished public investment in public institutions, old business models that require rethinking to address current and future needs, and continued competition in alternative forms of learning. Private colleges face additional financial concerns. Mergers are a potential solution, but alumni donors often disappear with a merger. Technology plays a role as institutions gear up for a strong Virtual Learning presence as well as lifelong learning programs that seek to keep retirees as part of their current business model. Rethinking strategic plans and making use of market assessments are a must for higher educational institutions as they face an uncertain future.

Re-engineering Delivery of Student Services

Technology & Student Services

This university’s large-scale technology change included centralizing student services in a newly-designed student services center. The change meant creating new jobs, reallocating workloads, and fostering the transfer of cross-functional knowledge. Working with an internal team and an external project management consultant, DRC consultants built a comprehensive road map for achieving desired results by the fall semester. They collaborated on redesigning workloads and responsibilities and documenting functional procedures for the new way of working. To implement changes, they designed cross-functional training and coached functional leaders to promoted new standards for performance. The university saw its new Student Services Center opened with both managers and staff competent and eager for the new way of delivering student services and confident in their ability to face future challenges.

Efficiencies in Higher Ed Environments

Redesigning Administration for a More Effective Learning Environment

In an effort to operate with greater efficiency and effectiveness, this premier university undertook a university-wide business process redesign effort, as well as implementing PeopleSoft Financials, Human Resources, and Payroll modules. Planned as a multi-year initiative, the degree of complexity and scale of change required the university to be proactive and systematic in its planning and execution of the initiative.
 
DRC consultants provided the change management and communication strategy and components for implementing the Human Resources and Payroll modules, as well as planning and managing all end-user readiness activities. The university succeeded in implementing critical changes with minimal push back from educational staff and operational employees. The change management and communication efforts designed by DRC set the standard for deploying additional modules.

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