GroupSystems^TM is an award-winning corporate-wide consensus building groupware which gives a helicopter view of your corporation and enables your people to work together as a creative team for better and faster decisions.  The concepts and tools of creativity come alive as participants interact through a network of PCs whenever and wherever they need to work together: in meetings, between offices, across the country--or around the world.

GroupSystems^TM is the most complete collaborative software available today, supporting a wide range of processes, numbering more than hundreds; such as Strategic Planning, Quality Management, Team Building, WITS, Project Management, Product Design, Surveys and Business Process Re-Engineering.

GroupSystems^TM include: Boeing, IBM, US Department of Transport, Chevron, Hewlett-Packard, Cigna Systems, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, and the US military forces; British Airways, goverments of Solvenia and Holland.  In the Asian region: users are found in Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, New Zealand, and Australia.

In Singapore, users include: Prime Minister's Office (IPAM), the Ministry of Defense (SCO and Navy), HDB, iDA, MOE, MOF, the Nanyang Technological University.  Private corporations include: PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Proctor & Gamble.

Return to top

You'll need GroupSystems^TM if your corporation:

	Is undergoing or needs to undergo a transformation: whether it's re-engineering, re-inventing, or re-organization.
	Is interested in unleashing your people's power, mining and managing their ideas, getting them into creative synergy.
	Is in the process of forming teams for organizational enhancement: in quality, productivity, or staff morale.
	Wants to be more efficient and effective in how work processes and projects are managed.
	Desires to maintain a competitive edge by utilizing the best information technology for enhancing your ability to manage customers, suppliers, products, information, time, money and talents.

Return to top

"The most prominent (meeting support software) developer is Ventana Corp. of Tucson...a (1991) Boeing study found that Ventana's GroupSystems^TM software could shorten the time it takes groups to complete projects by as much as 90%."--'Groupware Goes Boom,' Fortune Magazine, December 1993

"GroupSystems^TM gives you the ability to have spontaneous meetings and still gain the benefits of seamless collaboration--with all participants contributing to the best solution."--Ginny Wilkerson, Chevron Information Technology Co.

"We compete head to head against the best in the world.  Ventana's commitment to continuous product upgrades means we don't have to worry about fighting tomorrow's wars with yesterday's tools."--F. Lancione, Coopers & Lybrand

"I have never seen so much information exchanged, discussed and created...in so little time."--CIO Magazine

"The software should be provided for all civil servants."--Senior Officer, Ministry of Defence, Singapore

Return to top

It is a common complaint among HRD Directors that training do not have long lasting effects on their companies.  Like hit-and-run accidents, they happen, and then disappear.  The concept and techniques learned do not usually get absorbed into the corporate culture, let alone promote any lasting changes.

WSA's unique advantage is its integration of management development with organizational development by providing the two complementary products of CEO^TM and GroupSystems^TM.  While the CEO^TM Programme approaches organizational development through management training; GroupSystems^TM approaches management development through organizational enhancement.  In an environment that is rapidly changing and increasingly competitive, organizations need continuous collaboration and creativity on one hand as well as productivity and systematic innovation processes on the other hand.  GroupSystems^TM provides the balance.

Return to top

Teamwork Any Time, Any Place
GroupSystems OnLine uses the Internet to allow every member of your group to work effectively with other team members no matter where or when they are able to contribute.  Not only does it let people around the office or around the world get involved, it also reduces cycle times for strategic planning, product development, problem solving and other business processes while greatly reducing travel costs and down time of key personnel.

Hosted Solution
With this version, GroupSystems OnLine is a service hosted by GroupSystems.com (a Singapore host to be set up by Whole Systems Asia is in the works).  Users access the service through the Internet.  This solution allows you to eliminate the need for often expensive construction and maintenance of a distributed infrastructure.  You simply sign a yearly service agreement for your users and only pay for the service as it is used.

Installed Solution
The solution is designed for organizations that want to take advantage of their existing intranet infrastructure and support.  The GroupSystems OnLine service is installed on your organization's network.  You are then responsible for maintaining the GroupSystems OnLine environment.  With this solution, your organization signs a yearly service agreement and pre-pays for usage.

Return to top

Just another meeting room?  Not with GroupSystems MeetingRoom in attendance.  This server-based offering for same-time, same place meetings creates a dynamic that allows team members to come together and generate more ideas than ever before, evaluate their relative merits, make decisions and reach consensus.  And all in about half the time of a traditional-style meeting.

Users in Singapore, such as HDB, iDA, MinDef, MOE, MOF, etc. have registered rates of ideas generated in the order of hundreds per 30-minute session, in crucial areas as fiscal planning, Environmental improvement, Innovation, IT Master Planning, Inventions, and WITs.

Global users such as Boeing, Bellcore aqnd IBM have reported workflow improvement of 90% and up, and teams reported taking one-third the time they usually need to accomplish their tasks.

Return to top