Gilfus Education Group

About Education Industry Insights

Education Industry Insights services are designed to provide clients with company and market due diligence, investment transaction assistance, independent consulting, strategic planning and insights into transformational changes to competitive eLearning technologies, content development, deployment and education programs and insights into where technology in education is going. The goal of Education Industry Insights is to provide clients with timely and tangible market insights to mitigate market challenges, provide reliable market data and strategic best practices to ensure that clients are well-informed regarding important decisions in the education industry.

Education Industry Insights Member Only Community

Clients will be expected to list one of the subjects or provide another non-listed subject in the scheduling process, so that an appropriate adviser can be provided to the client.

Access to Premier Market Research

Vendor and Software profiles, including:

  • Education Technology Companies
  • Learning Management Systems
  • Event Resource Planning Systems
  • Student Information Systems
  • SCORM Authoring Tools
  • Other relevant technology systems

Published White Papers

  • The Educational Technology Framework: A Road Map for Successful Educational Technology Adoption
  • Lifelong Learning: The New Normal for Higher Education: Meeting the Needs of Today's Dynamic Learner
  • "Social Learning" Buzz Masks Deeper Dimensions: Education and the Social Web Whitepaper
  • Intelligence Emerges from an Enterprise Education Platform: Reducing the Cost of Technology Fragmentation
  • Previous general research collected through prior projects

Access to Written Reports

  • Industry spotlights – Reports with brief comments from a variety of different experts and advisors on a proposed topic
  • Specific research – Reports, typically between 5 and 10 page qualitative reports based on a specific subject decided on during consultation. One (1) allowed report request per year.
  • Published research – Any additional research that is published throughout the annual period including reports, analysis, and white papers
  • Industry alerts – Reports and analysis of breaking news relevant to the education industry
  • Monthly e-newsletter – A monthly digest emailed to subscription email and found in the members’ portal that provides news, summaries, interesting and relevant articles, and other interesting education industry tidbits.

Access to Exclusive Industry Hosted E-Events

  • Teleconferences – Clients can opt to exchange one of their five (5) consultation calls for a 30-minute teleconference with multiple advisors, to provide the client with different perspectives on a certain issue or topic.
  • Webinars – Clients will receive invites for Gilfus Education Group hosted Webinars and will also gain access to other relevant webinars from other industry experts.
  • Podcasts– Clients will be able to subscribe to a podcast which will feature a member of the Gilfus Education Group team hosting a variety of industry experts, Gilfus Advisors, and other guest of interest

Dedicated Advisors

Clients who choose this service will be provided with a current list of subject-matter experts and Gilfus Advisors and will be able to choose to have a consultant assigned to their case. A full education and experience profile will be provided that will allow clients to carefully select an advisor who best suits their needs and/or questions.

  • In-person consultations, analysis, and presentations - When requested, clients will have to provide a small fee, but will be able to have a team of subject-matter experts and/or Gilfus Advisors meet in-person to review a topic that might be difficult to discuss over the phone and/or email. These in-person events will require at least two (2) months advance notice and are subject to change. Clients are limited to one in-person event per annual subscription.
  • Unlimited email contact with assigned advisor and access to discussion forum.

Clients will be able to add-on additional services if they would like additional consulting or research for an additional fee, including:

  1. Consultation calls
  2. Research Requests
  3. Meeting Requests