Embarking on a comprehensive digital transformation is a monumental task for any enterprise but modernising a 200-year-old higher education institution presents a unique set of challenges.

For the past 18 months, Deloitte has acted as a strategic advisor across the University of Cincinnati( UC)’ s entire operational landscape.

Matt Fiorino, Senior Manager at Deloitte, leads the account, helping the university prepare for, implement and sustain its ERP investments through meticulous readiness and early engagement.

“ The university is a very forward-thinking institution, so they’ re starting well before their actual journey launches,” he explains.“ In terms of getting prepared for their ERP transformation and digital journey, we start with establishing a base for their leadership and governance to ensure that we have the appropriate executive stakeholders at the table.”

This has led to several opportunities for collaboration between Deloitte and UC, including reimplementing and optimising UC’ s Anapalan planning and budgeting solution, assessing the current HR System to identify technical and operational efficiencies and working with UC on its ERP Futures Program.

Next, the university will map out its timeline and resource needs. The focus will then shift to evaluating the total cost of ownership across HR, finance and student systems.

“ We will establish a business case for the financial investment to move to a new ERP cloud product,” Matt says.

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