What We Do

We work with you and your staff to:

1. Align resources with goals

• Identify your district's priority academic and administrative goals as well as the most troublesome tasks.
  
• Analyze current alignment of available resources to required tasks and goals.
  
• Locate underutilized or misaligned resources.
  
• Identify gaps in technical or human resources.
• Review district policies and procedures to evaluate impact on effective use of resources as well as the balance struck between system security/efficiency and user flexibility/empowerment.

2. Tune up IT Operations.

• Daily tasks and time sinks. An external observer can bring an unbiased perspective to a review of routine tasks and emergency procedures in order to articulate more efficient ways of meeting IT demands.
  
• Balancing training and support. We determine if policy and training effectively reduce unscheduled support.
  
• Technology assessment. We evaluate overall IT infrastructure to provide evidence of required upgrades, the need for standardization-or readiness for deployment.

3. Integration. Is technology being used effectively to meet both academic and administrative goals? The answer to this question rarely lies solely with the technology itself. Other issues we evaluate:

• Whether required professional development is timely and effective.
  
• If sufficient advantage is taken of technology's proven power to facilitate administrative tasks and simplify reporting requirements.
  
• If data is being efficiently collected, appropriately aggregated, properly analyzed, and fully utilized for long-term planning and operational improvement.
  
• If communication among all stakeholders is sufficient.
  
• If successful technology integration creates time for new activities.

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