Higher Education
ISG delivers data-driven analysis and actionable recommendations to help higher education clients further student achievement and success.
Strategic Transformation to Focus on Mission, Goals and Objectives
Leaders of colleges, universities and academic medical centers face the extraordinary challenge of guiding institutions toward their missions even as they are buffeted by the external and internal forces of change: new business models, changing demographics, shifts in funding and an onslaught of regulation.
ISG understands these challenges because our experienced team of experts has been guiding higher education and academic medical center clients to successful outcomes in this environment for years. We deliver data-driven analysis and specific, actionable recommendations to clients looking to enhance recruiting and retention, improve the patient experience, transition to more effective and efficient service delivery or move enterprise applications to the cloud.
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David Hemingson
Partner
David Hemingson
David Hemingson is a Partner with ISG Public Sector and leads the firm’s Higher Education Practice. He has more than thirty-five (35) years of experience providing professional services to more than 200 university systems, leading research universities, academic medical centers, colleges, universities and research institutions. He specializes in complex, enterprise-wide transformation projects that include strategic planning and implementation of leading practices often in parallel with the evaluation and implementation of enterprise systems.
He has provided project management and independent verification and validation (IV&V)/quality assurance services in support of these projects. He had led projects to evaluate enterprise organization structures and processes, and identify and implement operational improvement, service enhancement, and cost reduction/containment initiatives, including shared services. His experience is focused on project management and change management, and includes risk assessment, benchmarking, operations improvement, organizational redesign, and predictive analytics.
Kristi Bradford
Director
John Cook
Director
John Cook
John Cook has been a Director in the ISG Public Sector Practice for more than fourteen (14) years, and has over thirty (30) years of proven experience in enterprise application software procurement, analysis, software design, project management, quality assurance, and implementation, with the last eighteen years working on public sector enterprise software projects in an advisory role. His recent public sector experience includes business case and requirements development, RFP authoring and procurement support, ERP vendor evaluation/selection, contract negotiations, cultural change management, and project management/quality assurance responsibility. He has recent experience evaluating software-as-a-service, cloud-based, and hosted systems for clients
Nathan Frey
Partner
Nathan Frey
Nathan has more than 19 years of service to state and local governments in IT and project management with expertise in financial and compliance auditing, human resources, activity-based costing, process improvement services, internal control reviews, project management, and consulting. His work with public sector organizations includes helping them select, acquire and implement ERP systems for finance, procurement and human resources management. Before coming to ISG, Nathan held positions in state government and commercial enterprises, including a Big 5 accounting firm. Nathan is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and a licensed CPA in the State of Texas.
Kirk Teal
Partner
Kirk Teal
Kirk Teal is Partner of ISG Public Sector and has over 26 years of public sector experience, including 20 years of experience in the design, development, implementation and support of financial and procurement applications designed for public sector entities. He has expertise in the following functional areas: general ledger, accounts payable, budgetary control, budget preparation, grant and project accounting, purchasing, inventory management, and asset management. Kirk has considerable experience in assisting state and local governments, and institutions of higher education in evaluating ERP software offerings and implementation/integration services firms.
