Strategic Advisory
The most successful institutions don’t start with technology—they start with clarity. SIG’s Strategic Advisory practice helps colleges and universities step back, align where they’re headed, and make sure the strategy is right before committing resources to execution.
We bring decades of higher ed experience to the questions that matter most—and when it’s time to move, we have the depth to deliver. Our advisory offerings include:
AI Strategy &
Governance
SIG meets you wherever you are on the AI journey. Whether you’re forming your first AI task force or refining policies already in motion, SIG brings the higher ed expertise and strategic clarity to move forward with purpose. Our engagements are collaborative, practical, and built around tangible outcomes in 2- to 6-week engagements: AI Institutional Opportunity Map, AI Institutional Governance & Risk Management Clinic, AI Institutional Metrics & KPIs.
Business
Process
Optimization
SIG’s Business Process Optimization practice works across functional areas to map how work actually gets done today, identify where processes are broken or bloated, and redesign workflows that leverage your existing technology as it was intended to be used. You’ll benefit from a reduction in costly customizations and newfound freedom for your teams to focus on higher-value work.
Cloud | SaaS
Transformation Readiness
SIG’s SaaS Transformation Readiness practice helps colleges and universities prepare across the dimensions that matter most—process, technology, and organization—so your move to SaaS becomes a springboard for modernization, not just a re-hosting exercise.
Enrollment
Strategy
SIG drives improvement in enrollment outcomes and supports institutions across the full enrollment lifecycle with counsel, strategy, and implementation: Enrollment Strategy, Institutional Positioning and Brand, Student Onboarding and Melt Retention, Retention and Student Success.
Institutional
Strategy &
Marketing
SIG combines enrollment management expertise, creative firepower, and technology implementation under one roof, ensuring your brand strategy isn’t disconnected from your CRM, your recruitment funnel, or your student experience. The result is a coherent institutional identity that doesn’t just attract attention, but drives enrollment, retention, and lasting reputation.
Organizational
Change Management
SIG’s Organizational Change Management practice ensures that your people are as ready for change as your systems and processes. We offer two primary services, one for broad institutional transformation, and one purpose-built for major system rollouts: Transformational Change Leadership, Implementation Change Management.
Every day is a chance to dismantle the status quo.
I almost look at SIG as our safety net. We have Ellucian implementing the software, we have our Broward team, but then we have SIG. If we’re going to stumble or fall, SIG is going to be there to help pick us up—because they’re in it with us for the long haul.
Liz Perrone, Implementation Director, Broward College