Higher Education Consulting Reimagined

Higher Education Consulting Reimagined

Unlock Your Institution's Potential

Since 2001, we’ve helped hundreds of institutions navigate a changing higher education technology landscape, overcome obstacles across their institution, and build resiliency. With our strategic planning and various flexible service offerings, you can get custom support at a level and depth that best meets your institution’s needs.

Institutions of all types and sizes worldwide work with The Tambellini Group because of our transparent, unbiased, fact-based approach that delivers results.

Our Clients Experience, on Average:

10X ROI from Time and Cost Savings

6 Months of Time Saved

Custom Services to Advance Your Institution

Develop a strong foundation for all your modernization and optimization efforts. Our Technology Modernization and Optimization services will help you:

  • Achieve alignment among leadership and stakeholders
  • Ensure project readiness
  • Support data management and governance
  • Bolster your project governance framework

Save time and money with impartial, research-based insights so you can evaluate and select the right solution and service providers more quickly. Our deep market knowledge and experience with systems, services, and providers will allow you to:

  • Narrow your options to best-fit providers
  • Simplify and expedite your provider selection
  • Save hours with well-crafted RFPs that generate quality responses
  • Compare providers on the details that matter to you

Our experts focus on helping your institution maximize the value of its investments. We review and negotiate contracts to ensure you’re paying for the right levels and combination of features, functionality, services, and requirements based on your needs for new contracts and renewals.

  • Accelerate the negotiation process
  • Mitigate project, financial, and institutional risk
  • Understand key business and legal terms and conditions
  • Gain support or have Tambellini lead negotiation meetings

All projects require effective change management and leadership to be successful. Discover how our people-first approach and mix of strategic and hands-on workshops and consult with Tambellini experts can help:

  • Increase adoption and project success
  • Provide a strategic roadmap for change
  • Support your project from planning to deployment and post-launch
  • Build a foundation for innovation

The Tambellini Group’s unbiased research underpins everything we do. It’s why we’re the leading independent technology research, analyst, and advisory firm dedicated exclusively to higher education, and it’s why our clients trust us to help them make the right decisions.  

  • Stay abreast of the latest trends, and which trends deliver results 
  • See through product and service provider marketing noise and industry buzz 
  • Gain confidence and market insights to make strategic technology decisions 
  • Learn insights from the stories and experiences of other institutions

Strategic, Data-Informed Solutions to Your Top Challenges

Our service offerings are designed to help colleges and universities strategically prepare for and respond to current and future institution-wide challenges.

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“Some consulting firms take a cookie-cutter approach, and you’re unsure how customized their advice will be. Tambellini listened and considered our journey, basing its approach on where we were in our process and how our requirements aligned with the wealth of available options.”

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Michael Hager
Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations, UNI

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Michael Bisson: Vice President of Student Product Strategy at Workday
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Vice President, Student Product Strategy
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Michael joined Workday in 2013 seeding the Student project team and contributing to its initial architecture and design. Michael led the Product Management team as they designed the core student product and facilitated a three-year customer design partner program. Today, Michael leads the Product Strategy team responsible for determining market fit, competitive market intelligence, and overall product direction. Prior to joining Workday, Michael worked 16 years at Peoplesoft and Oracle in support of the Campus Solutions product in Product Management, Development, and Support. Michael has committed his professional career to the improvement of higher education management through the design and development of Student Information Systems.

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