Today’s education technology sphere is characterized by a fragmented and highly-dynamic market, where myriad startups are gaining foothold with disruptive technology as well as the established education businesses, “going digital.” With regards to this market dynamism, the education technology companies are either buying other education technologies and integrating them or building extensions to stay relevant in the market. Along with this type of consolidation, comes the post-acquisition integration exercise, where it becomes important to take decisions as to which people, processes, and backend technologies will best suit to run the consolidated organizations. Navint Partners, headquartered in Rochester, NY, focuses on working with such companies to address their consolidation challenges, without destroying the accretive value implicit in the merger. “As the companies grow organically or via acquisition, there are opportunities for them to grow more efficiently, while spending less in SG&A as a percent of their revenue growth,” says Jeffrey Wissink, Senior Partner, Navint. “In this way, we also focus on optimizing the backoffice functions like Finance, HR, and IT to determine optimal organization constructs, process efficiencies, and technology to help these companies grow smarter,” he adds.

Navint specializes in helping educational institutions achieve their large-scale organizational process change. This change is enabled through Navint’s competencies in IT transformation, On Shore-Off Shore Application Developmentand Business Process Optimization that are vital to the stability and growth of the education institutions. “Our senior-level consultants work with the educational organizations throughout their project. We help them in identifying threats and designing strategies based on unique demands of their operating environment,” remarks Wissink. “From Change Management Leadership and Project Management to Organizational Design and Technology Selection, we offer a broad range of services to help higher education colleges and universities navigate the complexities in their educational environment,” he adds.

Being a boutique management consulting firm of “big 4” experienced senior consultants, Navint offers industry knowledge, big-firm skills, and small-firm intimacy and flexibility to the client companies. Talking about Navint’s unique strategies, Jim Martindale, Managing Director at Navint, remarks, “management consulting is a people business and our strategy for success lies in our ability to hire the best and brightest consultants that espouse the genuine ‘client-first’ attitude which we demonstrate with all of our clients.”