InterEd, Inc.

Risk Mitigation or Friendly Advice?

Advice is cheap . . . or it should be. The value of risk mitigation is often incalculable until hindsight kicks in sometime after the "Uh-Oh" event comes into focus in the rear view mirror.

Advantages of Working with InterEd

The Short List

We have been creating and growing successful adult-centered programs since 1983.
Our services span all functional areas, from marketing, branding and lead generation, to post-matriculation retention management . . . from financial modeling to content management, to compensation systems development.
Our own careers and financial success have been on the line in each functional area in which we will help you succeed. Our guidance grows from deep personal experience, not from observing others.
Our guidance is never tainted by third-party relationships. We accept no considerations in any form from software vendors, lead generators or aggregators, or service providers.
We believe you need guidance not rhetorical or numerical bloat. Whatever your goal and whatever our relationship, InterEd provides clear and unequivocal direction.
Finally, and most importantly, we have a track record of success. Clients come to us for a variety of reasons. Risk mitigation is why they keep coming back.

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.

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.

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 a talent for 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.
Structure a relationship that meets your needs, including establishing specific outcomes rather than nice sounding expressions of hope.

InterEd exists to make you as successful as you choose to be with your adult-centered and professional programming, and to do it in a way that is as congruent as possible 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:

We offer three considerations on this point:

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. Whatever vendors you choose, InterEd recommends that you separate those who provide enterprise intelligence from those who provide software to acquire, manage, and distribute that intelligence.
Solutions involve vision and strategy, business rules, role definitions, performance standards, metrics, reports and dashboards, and more. Software is involved in many elements of solutions, and at different levels. Software is not the solution.
It is common in InterEd's engagements to assist in the identification of a software vendor best suited to the client's situation. In doing so, we accept no consideration in any form from any vendor we may recommend to a client. We retain our independence of judgment for several reasons including knowing how quickly the competitive landscape can change. For enrollment CRM software, for example, we are now generally recommending against a vendor we recommended a few years ago. If we were to have had a financial interest in either of these vendors, the integrity of our recommendations, or at least the appearances of integrity, would have been compromised.
Through our independent guidance in selecting software ;vendors -- CRM and Enrollment Management being two of the more common -- it is not unusual for us to save our clients tens or more thousands of dollars. We save money, first, in the selection process and, second, in contract negotiations to ensure that you receive the functionality promised and that you need to be successful.

How We Work for You

InterEd is a solutions company that limits its size and scope by design. Our relationship begins with discussions to identify your needs and determine whether we can meet them better than someone else. If we can see a path-certain to helping you in a distinctive way, and if your institution meets our tests of readiness to benefit, we will propose a solution and a relationship to bring it about.

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. 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.

Return-On-Investment

The numerical return on your investment from InterEd's services will depend on many factors. ROI ratios of 20:1 to 50:1 are typical for our most used services; some services exceed 100:1 while other ROI calculations, such as those that might be made on our end-of-course assessments and reports, cannot typically be determined in a non-trivial way.

Whatever the final ROI calculation, our promise is that there is no better value when it comes to obtaining the intelligence you need, interpreted by proven innovators in adult-centered and corporate-focused higher education.

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