The InterEd Difference

Giving Advice vs. Making Things Happen

Advice is cheap . . . or it should be. The value of risk mitigation is not always calculated until the "Uh-Oh" event becomes clear in the rear view mirror.

Advantages of Working with InterEd

The Short List

• Track Record. We have a 16 year history of success, which is the strongest single predictor of future success. 
• Risk Mitigation. Clients come to us for many reasons. Risk mitigation is why they keep coming back.
• Deep. You get guidance grows from deep personal experience, not from observing others.
• Realistic. Since 1983, we have been creating successful adult-centered and professional programs, first our own, then those of our clients.
• Objective. Our guidance represents our best research and analysis in your interest, not ours. We accept no considerations of any kind from vendors whom we might recommend to help you achieve your goals. We urge caution in this respect when considering consultants and vendors.
• Action Oriented. You get clear guidance without hedging or rhetorical or numerical bloat. 

If you need to grow, refine, or re-direct your adult-centered or professional programs, we will get you where you want to be and take responsibility for it. We will help you meet your growth, quality management, and innovation goals efficiently and in a way that leaves you well positioned for the future.

Call us at 800-516-9571. 

The Detail

Risk mitigation is not delivered by friendly consultants working from mid-management experience and a play book of someone else's generalizations.

Real risk mitigation is delivered by senior professionals who have:

• Themselves, created systems to manage and grow every facet of the enterprise, including making that million dollar payroll that keeps you up at nights when enrollments are down.
• Received critical acclaim in ways that are pertinent to your needs.
• Achieved outcomes congruent with what you want to achieve.
• Know the difference between giving advice and making things happen, and have an abiding disposition toward the latter.

It also helps if those whom you choose to provide assistance have the experience and confidence to:

• Focus on achieving your stated goals above all else.
• Achieve success congruent with your institutional culture and managerial resources.

Risk-Mitigation & Product Vendors

It is increasingly common to see an education vendor promising to achieve enrollment, retention, or instruction and content management goals through software or a turn-key package promising to solve your problems. If you have had these kinds of offers, please consider the following:

• While the choice of software and even hardware is an important step in achieving some solutions and goals, it is neither the solution nor the goal.
• Solutions involve vision and strategy, business rules, role definitions, performance standards, metrics, reports and dashboards, and more. 
• Through our independent guidance in selecting and contracting with vendors who can further support your goals, it is not unusual for us to create substantial savings. 

How We Work for You

We accept clients:

• For whom we can offer a distinctive advantage.
• Who meet our tests of readiness to benefit.

The structure of each engagement is flexible and adaptive. For most of our clients, the relationship evolves over time, waxing and waning with the changing cycles of their needs and operating environments. (Think of us like a department on your campus.) We have clients for whom we are providing hands-on guidance (onsite and/or virtual), executive coaching, back office development for vision and goal setting, program and market determination, organizational structure, infrastructure and systems development, development of role and proficiency models, development of metrics and reporting systems, vendor selection and management, service readiness, and more. We also have clients who call us once a year for a research report.

What We Do Not Do 

• "Up-selling" annoys us. We don't do it. Together, we will find a way to help you in a way tha is explicit and clear at the outset. No unpleasant surprises or hidden fees . . . ever.
• Accept any engagement where we cannot see a clear path to achieving your goals. 

Return-On-Investment

The quantitative return on your investment from InterEd's services will depend on many factors. If an ROI projection is important to you, we will help you identify the factors and determine the ratio before you make your decision.

Whatever the ROI, there is no better value when it comes to obtaining the intelligence you need, interpreted by proven innovators in adult-centered and professional higher education.

Call

Call us at 800-516-9571. We will help you meet your growth and innovation goals quickly, efficiently and in a way that leaves you well positioned for the future.