Helping Leaders Manage Institutional Change

Management Consulting Partners LLC (MCP) provides results-oriented, cost-effective institutional change services exclusively to the executive leadership of colleges and universities, multi-campus systems, state boards, and consortia. While our clients may be large or small as well as public, private, or proprietary, all seek to successfully address the significant issues higher education is facing in today’s environment.

MCP is your distinctive choice, since:

We work exclusively for executive leadership since the nature of the services we provide requires their support and involvement.
We have assembled a superbly qualified team of senior management consultants with extensive experience in higher ed, coupled with former presidents, provosts, CFO’s, and other key staff.
We have developed a comprehensive, integrated approach and methodology for helping institutions diagnose and solve their most fundamental management challenges.

This approach is built around the MCP Resource Management Framework for helping institutions think about how to best respond to today’s fiscal challenges. A systematic framework for thinking about managing institutional resources is critical, since we contend that resource management is at the heart of many of the problems higher education faces.

Opportunities:

Identifying Significant Relevant Cost Improvement Opportunities. Specific cost reduction strategies the institution can pursue to reduce cost while at the same time improving quality, satisfaction, etc. These steps can range from simple policy changes to more involved initiatives like resource sharing or one-stop student services.

Execution:

Planning and Managing Successful Change Initiatives. Theprocess through which real change is envisioned, planned, and realized.

Infrastructure:

Developing Ongoing Capacity to Effectively Manage Institutional Resources. Is the campus doing all the right things to effectively control resources? Even if a campus doesn't have pressing budget problems (or feels this issue is under control), it doesn’t necessarily mean the institution is well-prepared for the future.

Each of the three dimensions is important to achieving effective resource management. Although the dimensions are interdependent and mutually reinforcing, the rigor and relevance of each varies by institution. When fully developed, the framework is self-sustaining.