With Facilitate.com, university departments are expanding their reach beyond their campuses, gathering data and conducting collaborative discussions across the community and around the world.

Higher Education's role in education and research is increasingly moving out beyond the limits of university campuses into the corporate and public sector arena. Acting as consultants, business partners and innovators, university leaders are actively engaged in organization development, strategic planning and the new art of virtual collaboration. Whether applied to their own venerable institutions or to those of their clients, higher educators are seeking ways to create flexible, responsive and collaborative organizations and business solutions.

Web Collaboration Solutions

Facilitate.com has an impressive list of university clients at the leading edge of research and implementation of web collaboration solutions. Facilitate.com's meeting tools are an important resource for innovation labs, conference facilities and dispute resolution centers. Their state-of-the-art work incorporates collaborative technology to improve the productivity of meetings, quality and creativity of ideas and effectiveness of mediated solutions. Facilitate.com is a draw for corporate, government and community clients to use university services and consultants.

Facilitate.com's web collaboration meeting and survey tools enable researchers and university departments to expand their reach well beyond their campuses, gathering data and conducting collaborative discussions across the community and around the world. This global reach fits with the increasingly global nature of business issues and organizations.

Client Example

How does Higher Education integrate Facilitate.com into their virtual collaboration initiatives? At Johns Hopkins University, the Organization Development Department hosts faculty and staff from across the institution at their retreat center where they use the on-site meeting tools for a variety of purposes including strategic planning, organization change initiatives and dialogues on diversity. After the groups go home, they continue to share ideas and work together from their dispersed offices guided by an OD consultant/facilitator. With the mission of community outreach, Luther College brought diverse viewpoints to their Round Table Room to help the Northeast Iowa Woodlands Cooperative define their mission and goals for managing sustainable woodlands. The anonymous brainstorming feature provided an open forum for farmers, forestry professionals and community representatives to bring their most creative ideas to the table.

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