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Innovating Collaboration within Innovating Collaboration within Higher EducationHigher Education

Jim Godsey – Vice President, Marketing & Channels

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Expediting InnovationExpediting Innovation

• Founded in 1989 – University of Arizona, IBM & U.S. Navy joint research project

• Purpose: The Champion for Group Intelligence

• Leading Industry Analysts define GS as the Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) category leader

• Flagship product – ThinkTank™ launched in 2006

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Leading Educators Rely on Us… Leading Educators Rely on Us…

• Move than 50 of the worlds leading higher educations institutions, including…– California State System– University of Nebraska– University of Colorado– Texas A&M– U.S. Military Academy at West Point– ITESM (Mexico)– University of Manchester (UK)– University of Zurich (Switzerland)– TUM (Germany)– ESAN University (Peru)

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What are they doing…What are they doing…

CurriculumCurriculum

Business PlanningBusiness Planning

Community OutreachCommunity Outreach



Curriculum Planning & DeliveryCurriculum Planning & Delivery



Community OutreachCommunity Outreach



Business PlanningBusiness Planning



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Human 2.0 CollaborationHuman 2.0 Collaboration

moves work sessions through a processmoves work sessions through a process

Agenda Brainstorm Share Artifacts Prioritize Co-Author Voting/Preferences Survey Action Plan Auto-Document

Agenda Brainstorm Share Artifacts Prioritize Co-Author Voting/Preferences Survey Action Plan Auto-Document



Creating a Culture of InnovationCreating a Culture of Innovation

• Structured Meetings with Purpose– Agenda– Team Roles– Process Templates

• Repeatable Processes to Achieve– Discovery– Ideation/Brainstorm– Teaming/Leading– Learning

• Complimented by Audio/Video Bridge

• Executive Follow-Up/Team Accountability9

Meaningful Meaningful Collaboration in Collaboration in the Workplacethe Workplace



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