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What We Do


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Our Vision 

Our Vision.Friends call us FutureU. Our vision is a world in which people can learn all they need to know to get all they want from their work and their life. For now, and in the immediate future, that means helping people and organizations to:

The new information technologies are the biggest thing to come along since the printing press. FutureU is committed to helping organizations and individuals get the most out of these new tools—to enhance learning, improve workplace performance, add personal meaning to professional activities, and build bridges among people. In so doing, we hope to help our clients and ourselves make life more rewarding and the world a better place. Our motto is: "It's not the technology; it's what you do with it."


Our Mission 

How we do it.FutureU's mission is simple: To help organizations achieve a new level of performance through the appropriate application of technologies and processes for communication, collaboration and learning. As experts on corporate culture and human-centered work strategies, we help you develop, implement, and evaluate organization-wide processes that involve your management, staff, and other key stakeholders. Always the goal is to boost performance across the board, through the expeditious application of proven systems design principles. With regard to the new information technology, we approach it not as an end in itself but as a useful tool for building bridges among people.

Sample Success Cases 

FutureU has been consulting to organizations about technology-mediated communications and learning, since the early 1990s.
Read about a sampling of success cases here.



Client Testimonials

How We Do It 

We use technology and collaboration processes to support change initiatives and learning experiences led by external or internal consulting teams to improve or correct organizational challenges and issues.

We don't focus on the technology and we don't focus on the higher order facilitation process. We sit between these and integrate them in a way that makes things go better for everyone at any level of involvement.

We use technology to improve communication and we use process facilitation to improve the use of technology. We use both "hard" and "soft" technologies in a blended mix appropriate to the client situation.

The resulting synergies created by this approach improve the outcomes of any change initiative or learning experience, create buy-in and increase engagement with and commitment to the change process.

The Tools We Use 

Some of the tools and technologies we use include:

"Hard" "Soft"
  • telephone
  • fax
  • desktop computers
  • laptop computers
  • PDAs
  • Internet, intranet, extranet
  • discussion forums
  • chat and instant messaging
  • real-time Web-based meetings
  • digital images/graphics
  • audio
  • video
  • automated polls and surveys
  • automated tests and quizzes
  • video conferencing
  • teleconferencing
  • computer-generated slide presentations (e.g. PowerPoint or Flash)
  • traditional blackboard or whiteboard
  • Web-based whiteboard
  • computerized smartboard
  • collaboration/virtual teaming
  • software
  • learning management software
  • knowledge management software
  • productivity software (PIMs, email filters, calendars, event schedulers, etc.)
  • e-lectures
  • data and document sharing
  • debate
  • discussion
  • dialogue (Bohmian)
  • open space (Owens)
  • council circles
  • Group Graphics™
  • Interaction™ meeting facilitation
  • Future Search™ (whole system process)
  • polls
  • surveys
  • feedback loops
  • double-loop learning
  • tests and quizzes
  • "ropes" courses
  • creativity and improvisation
  • learning expeditions
  • traditional classrooms
  • leadership
  • team-building skills
  • improved time management
  • improved information management
Our Products and Services 

Some of the products and services we offer include:

Products

  • Software
    • Content Creation Tools
      • SmartDraw - Image library & drawing tool for charts, graphs, images, and PowerPoint.
      • SnagIt - The leader in screen capture.
      • Camtasia - Turn PowerPoint presentations into Flash movies complete with audio narration and talking head video window. 
      • Impatica for PowerPoint - PowerPoint file compression utility. Make your presentations more accessible to viewers on the Internet. 
      • ReadyGo Web Course Builder - Easy to learn, easy to use, template driven course content authoring tool.

    • Content Delivery Tools
    • Collaboration Tools
      • Inspiration - A learning tool for brainstorming, creative thinking, and writing improvment.
      • Timeline Maker - A low-cost, flexible way to draw timelines for teaching or team project purposes.
      • Zing - A process-based collaborative meeting technology
      • PageSeeder - Mailing List/Discussion server focused on collaborative authoring of documents.
      • Elluminate Live! - Full-featured, cross-platform Web conferencing software with extensive collaboration tools.
      • GoToMeeting - Windows only web conferencing with basic collaboration features. 

  • Decision Makers Planning Tools

  • Web Books and E-Books

Services

For additional information about our product and service offerings, please see our Statement of Capabilities. For a list of our current content offerings, please check out our listing of Continuous Learning Opportunities.



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