Solutions

Strategic planning

Prism's group decision support systems help organizations move efficiently through the full cycle of strategic planning. Our strategic profiling application is a key differentiator that helps planning teams to identify strategic leverage -- high-impact, high-payoff strategies requiring immediate resources and attention.

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Find benchmark (or "best-in-class") schools. Use these schools as models to set and justify aggressive improvement targets and to seek the programs, strategies and practices necessary to achieve those targets.

K-12 school improvement planning

Develop broad consensus support for district and school improvement plans that ensure a clear focus on priorities and the optimal allocation of resources.

Decision support

Faced with a controversial decision? Saddled with positional and emotional debate? Use our group decision support system to make sound decisions by assessing multiple options against weighted criteria in a collegial, rational, and objective process.

Needs assessments

Gain insight into emerging customer or employee needs and then speed creative strategic response.

Resource allocation

Our systems analysis matrix application is an effective tool for aligning resources with newly prioritized strategy.

Alliance management

Prism offers its clients a clear step-by-step alliance development process.

Training

We train clients in accelerated team planning and decision-making, including creative problem solving, conflict resolution and consensus building.

Large meeting automation

Do you need to understand immediately where a large, diverse group stands on a controversial topic? We provide real-time polling and feedback for large audiences.

Tools

Dynamic group processes

Prism's efficient facilitation and creative group processes engage and energize all meeting participants. We tap their knowledge, celebrate their skills, and unlock their creative imagination. Our promise: all meeting participants will have equal opportunity to participate in idea generation and decision-making in a way that is comfortable to them.

Group decision support systems

Frustrated in a meeting? Trying to get a group to agree? It doesn't have to be that way. Let the group vote anonymously using radio response keypads. View the results immediately. Minimize unproductive discussion of disagreement. Maximize productive discussion of disagreement. Make the decision. Move forward aligned, with consensus.

Concept mapping

Need broad involvement in a "ground up" process? Our Web-enabled concept mapping tool allows participants to log on to the Web to generate ideas, sort them and rate them -- from anywhere and at any time.

Frontier analysis

Frontier analysis -- also know as data envelopment analysis -- measures organizational efficiency and identifies best-in-class performers. For all others, it provides a personal set of benchmark peers. Use these benchmark peers as models to set and justify aggressive improvement targets and to seek the programs, strategies and practices necessary to achieve those targets.

Web surveys

Have a survey you'd like to Web enable? Looking to get employee or customer feedback? Prism now provides secure, password-protected online surveys.