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groupVision | optimizing group collaboration
groupVision | optimizing group collaboration

groupVision was established in the early 90s and has acquired a unique expertise in leading products for collaboration. Our in-depth understanding of group processes is based on a distilled experience of more than 15 years in computer support for cooperative learning with MeetingSphere. No matter your unique challenge, we can advise on a cost efficient solution for every group collaboration need and implement it with you.

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Optimizing Group Collaboration
groupVision is part of a consortium founded by groupVision Switzerland, renowned experts in group facilitation. We create and implement collaborative working environments for a range of industries and the public sector, contributing to more productive meetings and training sessions. groupVision takes people and organizations to higher levels of performance and achievement. We provide software tools and the expertise to apply them in any type of collaborative working environment. Combined with a clear understanding of your objectives we design interactive and participative methodologies that transform your organization to thrive in the 21st century. Established in the early 90s our company has acquired a unique expertise in leading products for collaboration. Our in-depth understanding of group processes is based on a distilled experience of more than 15 years in computer support for cooperative learning. No matter your unique challenge, we can advise on a cost effective solution for every group collaboration need and implement it with you. About groupVision “groupVision takes people and organizations to higher levels of performance and achievement”
General scope of our services Online Training For Hosts 90-minute training sessions for up to four participants per session. Template Design Services Making best practices available by mouse click across the entire organization. On-Site Training Standard or tailored training sessions for up to 12 people. Half or full days. Workshop Facilitation Support Enabling and supporting facilitators and practitioners to take their workshop to the next level. Consulting Services Helping you plan your MeetingSphere pilot or roll-out, or boosting the efficiency of standard processes by using group communication technology. Event Support Everything on how to make your events truly engaging and dynamic. We can deliver our services on-site, online or in a hybrid format
groupVision delivers its meeting support services to both private and public organizations according to the workshop-in-a-box concept. Our methodology provides a clear and unique way to identify: – What are your meeting requirements – How can success be measured – What is necessary to succeed Our customers can choose the right level of service for their meetings and we have conceived the workshop-in-a-box service to address your needs. The workshop-in-a-box concept consists of a two-step process: 1. A meeting on meeting, to jointly decide what needs to be accomplished. 2. A group facilitator organizes your meeting and if necessary can run the meeting. With our group facilitation services we create both the collaborative working environment and the collaborative work system that is required to achieve a higher performance. “Our customers can choose the right level of service for their meetings.” Workshop Facilitation
There are two types of group facilitation: Basic facilitation – Helps groups learn ground rules and develop ability to self-facilitate most conversations. Developmental facilitation – Helps groups identify and change deeply held defensive routines and develop skills for leading organizational change and transformation. Developmental facilitation strongly overlaps with organizational development (OD) interventions. OD = systemic and systematic change effort using behavioural sciences knowledge and skills to transform the organization to a new state. Our services can be delivered within these two intervention modes. Group Facilitation “Group facilitation is at the core of our professional pratice.”
In Basic Facilitation, a group facilitated meeting normally consists of the following stages and steps: START 1. Analyze: Understand the topic and being clear on what kind of new ideas that must be sought. 2. Formulate: Formulate the right questions. OPEN 3. Activate: Removing obstacles to creativity and enable the free flow of thoughts and ideas. 4.A Produce: Find large number of new ideas. 4.B Differentiate: Change and improve existing ideas. DECIDE 5. Select: Selecting the best ideas in a first selection. 6. Refine: Refine and curate ideas in more concrete items. 7. Assess: Rate existing ideas based on different criteria. 8. Prioritize: Differentiate between immediately actionable ideas, ideas for the medium term and for long term. 9. Document: Revision of work done. TRANSFORM 10. Convert: Implement the best ideas into action. Event Support “We create both the collaborative working environment and the collaborative work system for group facilitation.”
Once the scope of the meeting is defined along with its objectives a different agenda template can be designed to respond to those objectives. Our project fees include all the necessary work for assessing the meeting objectives, to design a meeting agenda, to run the meeting and to deliver a report. The fees also include a debriefing session with the meeting owner with suggestions for improvement. In developmental facilitation we anchor our practice with the use Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) and other organizational development approaches. SSM is an approach to organizational process modeling (business process modeling) and it can be used both for general problem solving and in the management of change. Template Design
The Business Model Canvas Developed for startup entrepreneurs or organizations in need of renewal the Business Model Canvas (BMC) is used to probe the team to think very deeply and comprehensively about the business. The canvas is best created collaboratively and lends itself to the use of e-meeting support tools. To that end, GroupVision has developed a general template that is customized for specific engagements and hosted on our MeetingSphere collaborative platform. We often augment the standard probing questions of the Business Model Canvas with companion questions taken from other similar frameworks like the bottleneck focused strategy (EKS). Consulting Services “The Business Model Canvas is used to probe the team to think very deeply and comprehensively about the business.”
The EKS ® Strategie is a bottleneck focused strategy by Wolfgang Mewes. It is now part of the of the universe of the EKS Malik Management Zentrum in St. Gallen in Switzerland. The EKS operates through a series of phases based on concentration of forces, clearly defined targets, go for the gap and in-depth solutions to the prevailing problem. The functional principles of the model can be summarised as follows: Phase 1: Analyse own situation and unique strengths. Phase 2: Determine the most promising market or broader field of endeavour. Phase 3: Analyse the most promising target group. Phase 4: Determine and analyse the most pressing and urgent problem (bottleneck ) of the target group. Phase 5: Develop an innovative strategy focused on this pressing “bottleneck”. Phase 6: Cooperate on solving the bottleneck. Phase 7: Aim consistently at the fundamental needs and behaviour that is required to achieve and retain market leadership. EKS
Sometimes organizations have their pockets of knowledge spread around the country or around the world – how do you recapture that knowledge and apply it where you need it? A process like Peer Assist can help one part of the organization learn what other parts already know and learned “the hard way”. groupVision has taken the proven process of “Peer Assist” and embedded it in the powerful virtual collaboration platform we use in many of our engagements with clients. With virtual peer assist, time and distance will not prevent you from discovering the key knowledge you need to be successful on a project or effort. Peer Assist “Sometimes organizations just don’t know what they know!” A peer assist is a facilitated work-session, held face to face or virtually, where peers from different teams and organizations share their experiences and knowledge with a team that has requested help in meeting an upcoming challenge. Our consultants can help you with peer assist efforts around the corner or around the world.
Paulo Nunes de Abreu also known as Paul Nunesdea is an organizational psychologist, MSc in Information Management, Ph.D. in Management Science. Paul optimizes group collaboration to bring around consensus and peer learning in smart communities and high-performance organizations. He undertakes consultancy and applied research projects with government agencies, municipalities and private companies in close collaboration with consultancy firms such as Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) and Mckinsey & Co. Jörn Kiewning based in Geneva is a Dipl. Kaufmann. As a consultant and trainer for communication and personal development he works for international companies in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Germany. His experience is based on several basic methods and concepts like NLP, Transaction Analysis, EKS, gto etc. As an instructional designer he develops blended content and hybrid materials for learning and collaboration. Peter Beck is based in the Washington DC area and is focused on creating productive meeting tools and virtual events using MeetingSphere. He is an expert at designing templates and creating meeting support strategies. Peter has many years of experience in Government and Industry working with groups as a team facilitator, support technographer and business consultant, leveraging from his multiple degrees in Economics, Business Administration, and Information Systems. groupVision’s Principals
groupVision | optimizing group collaboration Ayala 11, 1ª planta, 28001 | Madrid, Spain Pólo Tecnológico de Lisboa, Lote 1, ED3 1600-546 | Lisbon, Portugal Bahnhofstrasse 9 CH-6341 | Baar, Switzerland 80 Lytham Road Fulwood, Preston, PR2 3AQ | United Kingdom 335 Seaport Drive, Vallejo, CA 94590 | United States

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  • 2. groupVision is part of a consortium founded by groupVision Switzerland, renowned experts in group facilitation. We create and implement collaborative working environments for a range of industries and the public sector, contributing to more productive meetings and training sessions. groupVision takes people and organizations to higher levels of performance and achievement. We provide software tools and the expertise to apply them in any type of collaborative working environment. Combined with a clear understanding of your objectives we design interactive and participative methodologies that transform your organization to thrive in the 21st century. Established in the early 90s our company has acquired a unique expertise in leading products for collaboration. Our in-depth understanding of group processes is based on a distilled experience of more than 15 years in computer support for cooperative learning. No matter your unique challenge, we can advise on a cost effective solution for every group collaboration need and implement it with you. About groupVision “groupVision takes people and organizations to higher levels of performance and achievement”
  • 3. General scope of our services Online Training For Hosts 90-minute training sessions for up to four participants per session. Template Design Services Making best practices available by mouse click across the entire organization. On-Site Training Standard or tailored training sessions for up to 12 people. Half or full days. Workshop Facilitation Support Enabling and supporting facilitators and practitioners to take their workshop to the next level. Consulting Services Helping you plan your MeetingSphere pilot or roll-out, or boosting the efficiency of standard processes by using group communication technology. Event Support Everything on how to make your events truly engaging and dynamic. We can deliver our services on-site, online or in a hybrid format
  • 4. groupVision delivers its meeting support services to both private and public organizations according to the workshop-in-a-box concept. Our methodology provides a clear and unique way to identify: – What are your meeting requirements – How can success be measured – What is necessary to succeed Our customers can choose the right level of service for their meetings and we have conceived the workshop-in-a-box service to address your needs. The workshop-in-a-box concept consists of a two-step process: 1. A meeting on meeting, to jointly decide what needs to be accomplished. 2. A group facilitator organizes your meeting and if necessary can run the meeting. With our group facilitation services we create both the collaborative working environment and the collaborative work system that is required to achieve a higher performance. “Our customers can choose the right level of service for their meetings.” Workshop Facilitation
  • 5. There are two types of group facilitation: Basic facilitation – Helps groups learn ground rules and develop ability to self-facilitate most conversations. Developmental facilitation – Helps groups identify and change deeply held defensive routines and develop skills for leading organizational change and transformation. Developmental facilitation strongly overlaps with organizational development (OD) interventions. OD = systemic and systematic change effort using behavioural sciences knowledge and skills to transform the organization to a new state. Our services can be delivered within these two intervention modes. Group Facilitation “Group facilitation is at the core of our professional pratice.”
  • 6. In Basic Facilitation, a group facilitated meeting normally consists of the following stages and steps: START 1. Analyze: Understand the topic and being clear on what kind of new ideas that must be sought. 2. Formulate: Formulate the right questions. OPEN 3. Activate: Removing obstacles to creativity and enable the free flow of thoughts and ideas. 4.A Produce: Find large number of new ideas. 4.B Differentiate: Change and improve existing ideas. DECIDE 5. Select: Selecting the best ideas in a first selection. 6. Refine: Refine and curate ideas in more concrete items. 7. Assess: Rate existing ideas based on different criteria. 8. Prioritize: Differentiate between immediately actionable ideas, ideas for the medium term and for long term. 9. Document: Revision of work done. TRANSFORM 10. Convert: Implement the best ideas into action. Event Support “We create both the collaborative working environment and the collaborative work system for group facilitation.”
  • 7. Once the scope of the meeting is defined along with its objectives a different agenda template can be designed to respond to those objectives. Our project fees include all the necessary work for assessing the meeting objectives, to design a meeting agenda, to run the meeting and to deliver a report. The fees also include a debriefing session with the meeting owner with suggestions for improvement. In developmental facilitation we anchor our practice with the use Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) and other organizational development approaches. SSM is an approach to organizational process modeling (business process modeling) and it can be used both for general problem solving and in the management of change. Template Design
  • 8. The Business Model Canvas Developed for startup entrepreneurs or organizations in need of renewal the Business Model Canvas (BMC) is used to probe the team to think very deeply and comprehensively about the business. The canvas is best created collaboratively and lends itself to the use of e-meeting support tools. To that end, GroupVision has developed a general template that is customized for specific engagements and hosted on our MeetingSphere collaborative platform. We often augment the standard probing questions of the Business Model Canvas with companion questions taken from other similar frameworks like the bottleneck focused strategy (EKS). Consulting Services “The Business Model Canvas is used to probe the team to think very deeply and comprehensively about the business.”
  • 9. The EKS ® Strategie is a bottleneck focused strategy by Wolfgang Mewes. It is now part of the of the universe of the EKS Malik Management Zentrum in St. Gallen in Switzerland. The EKS operates through a series of phases based on concentration of forces, clearly defined targets, go for the gap and in-depth solutions to the prevailing problem. The functional principles of the model can be summarised as follows: Phase 1: Analyse own situation and unique strengths. Phase 2: Determine the most promising market or broader field of endeavour. Phase 3: Analyse the most promising target group. Phase 4: Determine and analyse the most pressing and urgent problem (bottleneck ) of the target group. Phase 5: Develop an innovative strategy focused on this pressing “bottleneck”. Phase 6: Cooperate on solving the bottleneck. Phase 7: Aim consistently at the fundamental needs and behaviour that is required to achieve and retain market leadership. EKS
  • 10. Sometimes organizations have their pockets of knowledge spread around the country or around the world – how do you recapture that knowledge and apply it where you need it? A process like Peer Assist can help one part of the organization learn what other parts already know and learned “the hard way”. groupVision has taken the proven process of “Peer Assist” and embedded it in the powerful virtual collaboration platform we use in many of our engagements with clients. With virtual peer assist, time and distance will not prevent you from discovering the key knowledge you need to be successful on a project or effort. Peer Assist “Sometimes organizations just don’t know what they know!” A peer assist is a facilitated work-session, held face to face or virtually, where peers from different teams and organizations share their experiences and knowledge with a team that has requested help in meeting an upcoming challenge. Our consultants can help you with peer assist efforts around the corner or around the world.
  • 11. Paulo Nunes de Abreu also known as Paul Nunesdea is an organizational psychologist, MSc in Information Management, Ph.D. in Management Science. Paul optimizes group collaboration to bring around consensus and peer learning in smart communities and high-performance organizations. He undertakes consultancy and applied research projects with government agencies, municipalities and private companies in close collaboration with consultancy firms such as Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) and Mckinsey & Co. Jörn Kiewning based in Geneva is a Dipl. Kaufmann. As a consultant and trainer for communication and personal development he works for international companies in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Germany. His experience is based on several basic methods and concepts like NLP, Transaction Analysis, EKS, gto etc. As an instructional designer he develops blended content and hybrid materials for learning and collaboration. Peter Beck is based in the Washington DC area and is focused on creating productive meeting tools and virtual events using MeetingSphere. He is an expert at designing templates and creating meeting support strategies. Peter has many years of experience in Government and Industry working with groups as a team facilitator, support technographer and business consultant, leveraging from his multiple degrees in Economics, Business Administration, and Information Systems. groupVision’s Principals
  • 12. groupVision | optimizing group collaboration Ayala 11, 1ª planta, 28001 | Madrid, Spain Pólo Tecnológico de Lisboa, Lote 1, ED3 1600-546 | Lisbon, Portugal Bahnhofstrasse 9 CH-6341 | Baar, Switzerland 80 Lytham Road Fulwood, Preston, PR2 3AQ | United Kingdom 335 Seaport Drive, Vallejo, CA 94590 | United States