Doctums Advisor
Doctums Advisor – our advisory service practice – brings value to our clients by helping them understand what their future might look like if they implement best practices and optimize the use of their current enterprise solutions. By assessing their current state and outlining the implications of staying the course, and having helped them imagine their future state, our consultants are best positioned to support them as they prepare for the changed future of higher education.
The Doctums Global team is made up of highly skilled consultants, many having worked as higher education administrators, and all having worked in the EdTech solution provider space solutioning, implementing, and optimizing enterprise systems through business process and best practice consulting.
How we can help
Our advisory services practice provides a breadth of offerings from addressing the most immediate and compelling operational challenges to developing and executing a comprehensive program of business process improvement-technology optimization, to providing staff augmentation services of functional and technical roles. Delivering value and providing positive outcomes for our clients is our singular priority. Our advisory engagements are bespoke – tailored to address specific goals of our clients.
Expert and Ad Hoc Consulting
- Address urgent and compelling system needs driven by the annual higher education business cycle
- Ad hoc support for business operations that are system agnostic and include functional, technical, and business process consulting
- Examples include:
- Enterprise system consulting
- Deploying financial aid updates
- New academic year preparation, i.e. billing table updates
- New fiscal year preparation, i.e. fiscal year-end close, applying annual tax updates
- Federal and state reporting
Strategic Consulting
- Medium and long-term bespoke business engagements around strategic planning, optimization, and modernization of business process or technology usage that are focused on business outcomes and the constituent experience
- Examples include:
- Business process and technology optimization consulting
- Strategic planning and roadmap development
- Institutional governance assessment
- Cloud readiness and adoption strategy
- Business continuity planning
Project Management
- Higher education experts with extensive project management expertise support functional or technical initiatives
- Expert consulting support to address workload needs and resource gaps
- Examples include:
- Project planning
- Project governance
- Staff augmentation
- System rationalization
Strategic Consulting Engagement Phases
Why this is different
Doctums Global has a singular focus on helping our clients achieve their desired outcomes. We take a strategic approach to every engagement by focusing on people, process and technology – but people and process first! We know that the constituent experience is everything – so our engagements start there and with the outcomes our clients want to achieve. Only then do we turn to optimizing the technology to help our clients push towards those outcomes.