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We are all very pleased with the success of the second Iberian Summit of Healthcare Leaders that took place in Seville, last month. The venue was well suited for meaningful discussion, where participants took time to listen to each other and work together on building a shared vision for key healthcare themes. Groupware technology was used to create a collaborative learning environment, beginning prior to the congress, where Google Apps was used to inform participants on key questions for debate. During the event, SMART Board interactive...
read moreA different approach to meeting events
groupVision honours the notion of ”collaboration”. It is the core of what we do as a company, in our company’s mission and in our motto: making shared visions a driving force. A powerful collaboration method is to use the art of group sketching. Drawing up the conceptual diagrams that express the ideas that are being presented and discussed in a group display, such as a flip chart or an interactive whiteboard, is useful to bring about shared visions concerning a given situation. In this example we have outlined the...
read moreSBS means business
groupVision Distribution Services – our business unit dedicated to SMART’s visual collaboration technology – is devoting a substantial part of its marketing efforts this fiscal year to promote SMART Business Systems - SBS – and the results are paying off. In SIMO Network a leading innovative tradeshow that gathers around 20.000 business professionals in Madrid it became clear that our booth was the unique player in the show not just with interactive whiteboards but with the best comprehensive set of collaboration...
read moreNetworking breakfast
A networking breakfast is certainly a very good way to start your day and groupVision’s Networking Breakfast really tastes good! This initiative has gained monumetum and is currently a popular gathering at our showroom in Madrid, where people from all over the country meet up every month to listen to the latest product developments and best practices in the use of SMART collaboration technology. Being close to the airport in Coslada is really paying off, since we have a mix of people attending from all over the country. Participants...
read moreAre you a good listener?
Steven Sample, in his book The Contrarian’s Guide to Leadership, writes, “The average person suffers from three delusions: that he is a good liver, that he has a good sense of humor, and that he is a good listener.” Listening is not waiting patiently for someone to finish his statement, just to tell him that he is wrong on his views. Great leaders are able to suspend their judgment while listening to others ideas, as well as to accept new ways of doing things. Being a good listener is developing the ability to listen to, and understand...
read moreMIX: It’s time to reinvent management
The Management Innovation eXchange (MIX) is an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. It is purpose-built as a platform and a laboratory for the “contrarians” to advance ideas, experiments, and passions around management innovation. “People come to the MIX because they know that the industrial-age management practices found in most organisations today are woefully inadequate to the challenges that lie ahead. They’re looking for bold new ideas that will make their organisations more...
read moreFoundation for collaborative work
Making shared visions a driving force is the long term aim of our company and the short term action plan for the recently established – Fundación para la Colaboración – in Spain. “The opportunities in Iberia are definitively there. A population of more than 4 millions unemployed requires a dramatic shift in the economy to ensure sustainable growth. In these new scenarios both private and public sectors must actively cooperate in the production of much needed social goods and services such as education, health and social...
read moreNew web resource for interactive whiteboard fans
SMART Technologies has an undisputed market leadership in Spain and groupVision is proud to be its exclusive distributor since 1997. During this time our company has created a number of dispersed web sites in support of Iberian reseller companies and several user communities. Early in 2005, a moodle platform was created www.aprenderconSMART.org and has ever since become very useful in supporting a growing community of SMART Board interactive whiteboard users. A few years after several regional versions such as SMART ekin Ikasi or...
read moreLeadership
I would like to start by taking a close look at the word leadership and what it stands for. Leadership is one of the most discussed topics in circles where people take corporate responsibilities. And has been a buzzword for the last couple of years´, by doing a Google search a total of 410.000.000 results appear and increasing every day. Whole MBA´s have been designed around it, seminars, workshops organized and books written, but what does that word actually stands for? I have been searching for several definitions, and I would like to...
read moreNew company blog
Welcome to our new company blog! This is going to be our preferred place to share with you the exciting things we are collectively doing in groupVision a company specialized in group collaboration. Besides our own internal news, we are also inviting the contribution of management authors that can inspire us with brief articles on subjects that relate to our field of practice. I hope you enjoy this web site and we are looking forward your comments.
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