Case Study: U.S. Department of Defense achieves large-scale collaborative innovation with FacilitatePro from Facilitate.com

U.S. Department of Defense gives voice to 140+ participants with Facilitate.com

The U.S. Department of Defense faced the challenge of fostering innovation and critical thinking across its various branches to develop new joint warfare concepts. They sought a new way to structure military experiments that would optimize collaboration among a large, diverse, and globally dispersed group of key decision makers and subject matter experts. The department selected the vendor Facilitate.com and its FacilitatePro software to enable this large-scale collaboration.

Facilitate.com's solution used FacilitatePro to provide tools for anonymous parallel brainstorming, idea categorization, and multi-criteria voting. This allowed all participants, regardless of rank, to contribute openly without inhibition. The result was a dramatic increase in the amount of expertise and ideas contributed to the discussion. Facilitate.com's tools significantly enhanced the effectiveness of the innovation exercise, leading to the development of new concepts and providing complete electronic documentation for rapid analysis and reporting.

U.S. Department of Defense