Today innovative conference programs pay growingly more attention to audience involvement and the need to make the most of participant's interactions with invited speakers or thought leaders. Few event organisers are able to produce end-of-the-day detailed meeting minutes that meter participants' activity. With GroupVision specialised services not only participant interaction can be enhanced in a meeting but a draft paper with the meeting's conclusions can be easily circulated via e-mail or published on the web immediately after the end of the meeting.

Ranging from your company annual meeting event to any high level public initiative, GroupVision can assist you in preparing your critical meetings and offers a fast and reliable way to listen to your key stakeholders. Powered with the latest software tools from SMART Technologies and other specialised hardware and software products, data collection can be easily accomplished via our wireless portable network of PCs or remote devices and the SMART Board.

Project Management "kick off"

Are you preparing a meeting to "kick start" a complex or large scale project? GroupVision can assist you in designing a general approach to project management with e-meetings, namely in developing the first stages of the group processes needed for effective project team development:

A project "kick off" meeting is designed to develop team work effectiveness in any type of large scale projects. It is particularly appropriate in the beginning of a project that involves one or several teams with a diverse membership, created from within different companies or within the same company but where members do not necessarily share the same background.

The session starts with a systems approach that sets the stage for a vision clarification exercise and a mission statement definition. This is necessary to clarify commitments about results and to create strong group cohesion - a critical requirement when a group is set to solve complex problems or to come out with really productive ideas.

Listening to relevant stakeholders

If you are interested to know what your people or your customers really think about your company or your products, Systems thinking and GroupVision e-meeting services can assist you. We will be listening to your information needs to co-construct an agenda that extracts useful and reliable meeting information. GroupVision e-meeting support makes the most of participants time that attend your business events.

Whenever you need to have an in-depth understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of an organisation, for an accurate assessment of training needs or to evaluate the actual results of a training program or corporate MBA.

Or when you need to know what people value in your products or services (considered objectively or compared with other companies' products or services) in collaboration with leading market research companies.

At the end of both these types of sessions, GroupVision produces a meeting report with graphics and result charts, as well as an evaluation with the written comments from the participants.

For more information about e-meeting support including a complete list of other meeting design templates visit our e-meetings section in this web site.

Public initiatives

If you are running your annual customer meeting or any other major public event, you would probably need to have effective conference workshops. These are essential for closer interaction among thought leaders and participants. GroupVision helps you to design a suitable e-meeting agenda for such workshops, able to generate more value out of the meeting investment your company is already making.

Sourcing GroupVision's meeting support services is the safest way to ensure that all participants get a chance to speak and be listened. In the end of the day, forget about the need to document your meeting. GroupVision will give you meeting minutes that register every participant position in the meeting. Our services can be used in customers or suppliers meetings, evaluation committees, company auditors meetings and any type of meeting that needs to be extensively documented.

GroupVision also offers its expertise in the use of the Internet for marketing your public meeting initiatives. Using the expertise developed through a series of renowned Public Fora, GroupVision now offers editorial web services for event organisers. Some of GroupVision's recognised successes include:

Aulas con Software A yearly specialised forum that showcases education best practices and innovative teaching with software support in the Iberian Peninsula, that runs consecutively since 2004.

Fórum Hospital do Futuro A specialised forum that supports strategic thinking and innovative practices in the health care sector in Portugal, since 2003.

GroupVision specialises in the creation of content profiles that help site visitors visualise the various aspects of your meeting, ranging from speakers and participants profile to detailed meeting minutes (e-white papers) that can be pro-actively shared to relevant audiences and participants that did not attend the meeting.

Partners in previous public initiatives include the following companies: