Education

The University of Texas at Austin:
One of the largest and most respected universities in the nation



Overview: Higher education around the country has not been immune to economic decline over the last few years, and the education industry all over have been looking for new ways to help solve their problems. There will always be a place for education, as there will be for improving it, and improving the way it is implemented. Improvements in student-faculty collaboration are a necessity now more than ever, as many educators, students, and administrators have learned.

Challenge: With nearly 70,000 faculty, staff and undergraduate students, the president of the University of Texas at Austin expressed the desire to better connect people and increase collaboration between departments. The need for a centralized and focused platform to discuss ideas and improvements that would advance the university's mission was a top priority for the school.

Solution: By implementing Spigit's idea management platform, UT is able to gather ideas from students and staff and collaborate on ways to improve the school and further the university's mission. This centralized platform has increase engagement, stimulated participation and facilitated creative problem solving in the Education Industry. Due to the overwhelming success with faculty and staff, University of Texas has now created another community for students and alumni, totaling nearly 500,000 people.

Check out the University of Texas use case here

Use Spigit for Education with:

EnterpriseSpigit - leverage your expansive employee base for the brightest ideas
  • Full suite of social software tools: forums, blogs, wikis, social profiles, activity streams and tags
  • Advanced analytics engine for finding the best ideas among all contributions
  • Idea trading market allows employees to buy and sell ideas
  • and much more...
ContestSpigit - propose challenges and contests to your public base of support
  • Easy access via customer self-registration
  • Sharing of ideas via popular social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
  • Full set of APIs for integration with other applications and sites
  • and much more...
PredictionSpigit - cut costs and reduce risk with accurate forecasting
  • Forecast project milestones, sales, and other events more accurately
  • Gain deep insight into your communities, tune your platform to your specified needs
  • Offer tangible rewards for useful contributions
  • and much more...


Benefits

Improve research and development, improve employee morale, increase customer loyalty and drive bottom line growth. Learn how.
Participation

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