In a computer assisted meeting, group processes are designed to deal with complex subjects where large amounts of information must be processed, or where people from various backgrounds need to be successfully involved.

The combined use of groupware technology and group facilitation techniques can become a decisive requirement for a successful meeting.

Electronic Meeting Support (EMS) is a combination of decision support software and a network of computers linking together a team to rapidly exchange information by means of electronic dialogue.

groupVision's Electronic Meeting Support (EMS) including our expert facilitation services are available to assist you. We co-create with our clients improved processes for a different range of collaborative learning activities, namely: 

Vision development - Creating scenarios emerging from creative process driven by the deepest aspirations of all stakeholders involved, namely customers, suppliers or employees. Teams develop and prioritise long-term strategies and operational values, goals and short-term action plans, followed by an assessment of their core competencies and their ability to fulfill the mission.

EFQM and business excellence initiatives - The European business excellence model is used as a framework for the European quality award. Facilitated EMS can significantly improve the entire EFQM self-assessment process, producing insights and consensus driven action plans with the voting results immediately tabulated and printed. Also with a full range of business excellence and quality management/business process improvement templates using our EMS tools, we design custom group-supported process for specific programs to help quality managers implement such programs.

Corporate image development - Industry-wide analysis and corporate identity including the analysis of strengths and weaknesses, core competencies and the value proposition of products and services. We clarify a vision-guided roadmap from your origins to the present state to the desired state and the ultimate potential of your organisation.

Customer and supplier relationship building - Facilitated EMS enables and encourages both the supplier and the customer to achieve new levels of cooperation, in order to improve the competitiveness of your organisation.

Benchmarking and best practice - We guide the identifying and developing of an updated list of best practices for any level of the organisation. The process guides the team through steps to review key performance indicators and to classify the best practices according to overall relevance and importance in categories.

Systems thinking for management teams - We have an educational cooperative learning template for business teams applying the principles of systems thinking to the "real" conditions existing within their organisation. The methodology uses facilitated e-meetings to help management teams focus on issues or problems requiring their immediate attention. Facilitated e-meetings significantly improves the ability of knowledge workers to communicate and collaborate in sharing knowledge and building on each other's ideas, broadening the knowledge management spectrum.

Learning organisation improvement - Beginning with an e-meeting survey and an analysis of the apparent deficiencies within their organisation, a group is able to determine the extent of a learning climate and how current management practices influence the ability to create and sustain a learning culture.

Our partner Anthony Adams is available if you want to have more information on how to design a session for any of those types of meetings and more. Based on more than 20 years of practice  in a range of industries as a groupware consultant, Adams has developed a substantial amount of e-meeting core-process templates. Certainly he will be able to find the most suited to start building your next critical meeting.

Contact us for more information.