Strategy and Assessment

How can you make the right decisions about key programs if you do not have accurate information? If your actual costs are unknown? If there are hidden policies? Obviously, you can’t.

All too often, poor communication between groups within an organization ends up creating pockets of hidden information. This means key decisions may not consider, or benefit, the entire organization. The good news is that you can get accurate information within your institution’s culture—and Delta Initiative can help.

We've found that one successful approach to resolving this dilemma is to increase the communication between colleges, departments and central administrative units. Our approach is to help you create a Strategic Assessment for the key programs—allowing you to develop a plan for what each department or college needs to do to benefit the teaching and research missions of the institution as a whole. This approach reveals your organization's short-term and long-term institutional needs and develops a plan for meeting those needs.

Sometimes an organization is not able to pursue its strategy, because it has no internal consensus on what that strategy is. Or it doesn’t have the organizational capacity or infrastructure to implement the required solutions.  Here too, Delta Initiative can help. Defining goals, refining missions, re-organizing or re-tooling — we make comprehensive diagnostic evaluations and develop holistic solutions to help clients decide where they’re going, and get them there.

Risk Management

The use of information technology has increased dramatically in the educational sector.  Where a few years ago the use of the technology was limited to areas such as Finance/Accounting, HR, and basic record-keeping,  information technology is now used throughout institutions by students, faculty, and staff.  Records are maintained on-line and various systems and applications need to be interconnected to present seamless user interaction.

All of these changes unearth a number of challenges that must be carefully considered in order to achieve a successful transformation.  Delta Initiative can help you with a realistic plan to protect sensitive information, meet information security guidelines, and plan for disaster recovery.

Project/Portfolio Management

Many higher education institutions are facing enterprise-wide IT implementations where they cannot afford to fail.  A great number of implementations often experience significant budget overruns or are even abandoned, costing millions of dollars and causing untold frustrations.

Professional project management provided by an outside management source, one with experience in ERP projects, can help reduce risk, increase quality, and potentially save millions of dollars for the institution. Delta Initiative can provide on-site project management resources to help your institution manage your enterprise-wide IT implementation.