SCIENS LLC
MCKINNEY, TX

About Sciens Sciens Consulting, LLC is a management and information technology (IT) consultancy headquartered in McKinney, Texas, serving public sector clients throughout the United States and Canada. The company was formed in 1989 to support the management and IT consulting needs of local government. Sciens (skē’ǝnz) assesses business strategies and aligns organizations, processes and technologies to improve efficiencies that translate into bottom-line results. When used correctly, technology can help to facilitate integrated, collaborative organizations. Translated, Sciens means “skillful management.” We are truly committed to sharing our knowledge and management skill to create organizational excellence for our clients. Our proven methodology and toolsets focus clearly on aligning IT with the business vision, and establishing IT as a strategic component of the organizational plan. We streamline how work is done – workflows, organizational structure, technology infrastructure – and improve processes to service customers in the most efficient way. Working with our clients, we employ our knowledge and experience in leading management practices and technologies to help them achieve their vision. For more than 30 years, the consultants at Sciens have accumulated know-how on nearly every potential management and IT challenge facing local government agencies throughout North America. We are independent of any technology vendor, so our recommendations are unbiased, and carefully consider each client’s requirements and budget. We pride ourselves on our open and collaborative consulting style. Sciens considers each engagement a partnership with the client, and follows an explicit Code of Ethics. The partners at Sciens are committed to helping local government work smarter and more efficiently. The founding partners at Sciens co-authored the book, Make technology work for your organization to improve productivity and the community experience Eliminate Business Risk Most local government managers would like to use information technology (IT) that helps their organizations serve the community by reducing costs, expanding services, and eliminating risk. Sometimes it’s not so easy. Our book, Transforming Government, is intended to be a practical guide for local government managers wanting to maximize the value of IT in their organizations. It provides recommendations for aligning IT with local government’s strategic vision, identifying opportunities to leverage technology, as well as tackling the ever-challenging step of getting started. Simply adopting individual technologies to fulfill each need as it arises is not the answer. This short-sighted approach has helped to install many of the incompatible technologies that live within local governments today. Technology must be approached from the broader perspective as facilitator of an integrated organization that works together. As our governments adopt more complex technologies, quality management systems are needed to ensure that there is alignment — not conflict — with the goals of the business. If problems exist within the IT infrastructure, there are a whole host of headaches and issues that can slow or even stop government services. At the core, it is important to understand industry norms and how your IT group compares in terms of functionality, structure and cost to other successful government IT systems. If organizational processes are designed collectively and IT is managed properly, local government managers will be empowered to save taxpayer dollars, reduce business risk, enhance services delivered to the community, and even identify new revenue streams. Sciens Sciens (skē’ǝnz) assesses business strategies and aligns organizations, processes and technologies to improve efficiencies that translate into bottom-line results.