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K12 Consulting, Sales, & Marketing Services
TDG's K-12 Practice is our oldest and the cornerstone offering of our consulting and service business.
With over 200 years of combined experience from former CIO's and CTO's, Instructional Designers, District Executive Administrators, Sales and Marketing Executives, Implementation Specialists, Trainers, and Product Development Executives; The Dougherty Group, LLC is a one-stop consulting source for K-12 market Subject Matter Expertise (SME's).
Company Overview
The Dougherty Group, LLC is a one-stop consulting, services, operations, sales and marketing source for services and solutions targeting the K-12 Education, Retail Real Estate, and Travel & Event Planning market sectors.
K-12 Ed. Tech. Consulting Services
The Dougherty Group, LLC, is your source for proven education strategists, sales and marketing executives, planners, consultants / project managers, trainers, and both 'keynote' & featured speakers. We are uniquely positioned to assist you because our expertise spans both the instructional and administrative needs of District operations.
Retail Real Estate Services
The Dougherty Group, LLC provides proven retail-centric property leasing, property management, tenant representation and exceptional proven levels of support. Our focus is Shopping centers which include: Regional/Super-regional malls; Open-air, Speciality, Neighborhood/Community, Power, Entertainment/Lifestyle, and Outlet centers.
Travel and Event Planning
The Dougherty Group, LLC, Travel & Event Planning Practice is renown for personalized and outstanding Customer Service. We provide custom air travel, hotels, transportation, destination vacations, incentive trips, and 'Hands On' world wide Culinary Travel experiences for 'Foodies'; we are your partner. Being flexible, we can offer any size solution to fit your needs.
Foundation for Growth
No matter which "service verticle" your business or personal interests require, a fundamental premise of our engagement philosophy is to lay a "Foundation for Growth" and client satisfaction. We collaborate with you to plan your long-term objectives, minimize exposure due to economic or political impacts, minimize unplanned exposures, and assist you in planning for long term significant success!
Defining the Difference
Each and every client has a unique set of objectives and goals. We discover the 'value' and expectations in these objectives by actively working with our clients through listening, learning, and asking "the key" (relevant) questions and "Defining the Difference". We have found that this methodology approach brings success, satisfaction and sustainability to all parties involved. With the questions answered and your goals throughly understood, we work with you to refine each strategy, objective, and tactic with the end result being a unique solution that finds it's foundation in your goals and assists in differenting you from your competitors where applicable.
Passion for Success
Our "Passion for Success" lies in the approach that once a plan is developed and implementented it is not the strategic panacea and the 'locked in' roadmap! We have a philosophy that all plans and approaches are "Evergreen" and need to be continually revisted and refined where required based on economic, competitive, technology, new destination locations, and market dynamics. Whether it be business related or travel/event planning centric; we actively work with all of our clients, to assure that their current and future actions continue to meet your long term goals. Working with our clients, on a collaborative basis, we adjust our actions and deliverables where required. The end result is measurable in the form of business growth, market share increase, increased profitability, and travel/event super-satisfaction.
In the News
The Dougherty Group just successfuly completed a 4-day professional development event for I.C.S.C. (International Council of Shopping Centers) in Scottsdale Arizona. The classes focused on Retail Real Estate Marketing, Merchandising, and Leasing. For more pictures and more detailed information please got to our Retail Real Estate Practice tab on this site.
Current News
The Dougherty Group has developed a series of new 'turnkey' interactive Retail Real Estate curriculum that combine classroom-based professional development topics with 'field based' excursions that tie back to the content exposed during the classroom sessions. The offering can be Client Custom & Specific. The initial offering was recently successfully tested with the NIRSC (Northern Ireland Region of Shopping Centers). The focus of this 4 day event was Customer Service and Satisfaction; and common and alternative uses of Social Media as a component of Marketing and Branding campaigns. Thru working with our Event Planning practice, we were able to offer a 'Turn Key' approach where we orchistrated venue planning, hotel reservations, conference room facilities, meals, and transportation to all venues ... including group airport pick-up.
The next version of this innovative Professional Development program has been developed to align with the ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers) certifications requirements and again provides both classroom and real life 'field based' concept re-enforcement.
For more information please contact The Dougherty Group.
Recent Events
The Dougherty Group has enhanced our web-site for 'smart phone' and 'mini pad'/ and 'slate' support. The new responsive design allows you to access us at anytime, anywhere, and on any device.
The Dougherty Group successfully completed a 4 day teaching engagement for the John T. Riordan School for Retail Real Estate professionals. The focus of our curriculum focused on Marketing, Merchandising, and Leasing. Key events inculded a capstone assessment in the theme of 1) Jeopardy and 2) I.C.S.C. Family Feud. It was a fun experience for all and we received rave reviews.
The Dougherty Group has started booking travel events for 'Foodies'. We are currently working with Epitourean with it's product 'Edible Destinations' culinary travel experiences. We can create customized or pre-designed cultural tours, culinary getaways and cooking vacations for the foodie in all of us. Packages are available world-wide as well as the US. Our first clients will be attending the La Dolce Vita Culinary Adventure which includes lodging, local transportation, sightseeing, and most importantly 'hands on' cooking classes/experiences with local Chefs. Destination travel can be booked by us or on your own ... it is all up to you! For more information just send an e-mail to foodies@thedocgroup.com
K-12 Education Practice
History ... The Dougherty Group (TDG) has over 200 years experience designing, developing, selling, and implementing leading edge technology solutions for the Education Market sector. The principles have been successful 'key' executives for such visionary Instructional Technology companies as: Computer Curriculum Corporation, iMind Education Systems, Prescription Learning, NetSchools Corporation, Plato Learning, Ingres Corporation, and Xerox Corporation.
Foundation for Growth ... Our philosophy, and resulting methodologies is focused on your need to optimize your technology and operational/process (both instructional and administrative) investment by assisting you in identifying those critical technology, infra-structure, and process challenges to your organization, achieving measurable results, and optimizing extensibility solutions. We challenge ourselves to deliver targeted and measurable solutions that meet the needs of the 21st Century Classroom, school, district and community both today and in the future!
Backgrounder - Addressing Today's District Challenges
- Everyday evolving technology
- Movement of instructional and administrative tools/materials to the cloud
- The budgetary benefits of SaaS (Software as a Service) delivery models
- Social media, it's impacts, and role in instruction, collaboration, and communication
- Escalating class sizes, more mobile student populations
- "Virtual Schooling"
- Shrinking budgets
- Increased focus on Standards-based instruction and alternative assessments
- Alternative assessment models
- ... and ultimately Student achievement, success, and graduation
As the pressures mount towards addressing these non negotiable requirements,it is often difficult to focus on the long term goals and a sound strategic plan, instead of quick fixes. Priorities and funding alternatives appear to be continually changing as fast as technology keeps rapidly advancing.
Defining the Difference
Solving this problem is not merely a tactical solution, but rather a ongoing strategy and methodology that encompasses:
- Your school/district/community/state vision and goals
- Your state / district instructional and student achievement objectives
- Funding sources, in light of Budgetary constraints
- Your comprehensive curriculum
and instructional models
- Your operational processes and procedures
- Ongoing professional development
- Your technology infrastructures and systems integration
- Community outreach and involvement
These tactical components are no longer isolated but rather comprise the elemental framework that make-up your instructional, technological, and performance management framework your '21st Century Community-wide School / District'. A districts, and in-turn a schools strategic plan is incomplete unless it can address and evaluate the linkages between the integration of current and future technology elements and their instructional and administrative goals. The intelligent, focused, and creative applications of technology in synergy with your schools/districts mission and goals can leverage investments and can produce the implementation models and ROI results that you desire.
Passion for Success ... ...
Implementing this successful operational plan in a complex ever changing technology world can be extremely challenging when burdened with the need to keep focused on your instructional and achievement goals. A proven industry leader, such as The Dougherty Group, LLC, understands your operational and technology challenges and has successfully planned and implemented school/district solutions nationally which will help assure your success.
The Dougherty Group, LLC (TDG), is a professional services company that found it's roots in such industry leading technology companies as: Computer Curriculum Corporation, NetSchools Corporation, Plato Learning, CrossPointe, Educational Data Resources, Xerox Corporation, and Ingres Corporation. Our principles have over 200 years combined experience delivering successful and proven solutions to both the education and technology market sectors.
TDG has become expert in all areas of instructional technology, delivery models - such as SaaS and the 'Cloud' ERP, SIS application, and Social-media applications and has been responsible for and assisted with many successful implementations. These implementations represent all models of educational technology application from labs, to professional development centers, to point-of-instruction in the classroom applications, to some of the first pilot districts providing 'school-to-home-to-community' e-learning environments, and the 'Cloud'.
Our "Passion for Success" and approach is simple... work with our clients to understand their requirements, goals, internal pressures, and expectations, ... and then assist them in exceeding their challenges in all areas!
