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The Innovation Task Force has identified eight top ideas submitted by GW students, faculty and staff.
- Expand Facilities Usage - Increase the utilization of Mount Vernon residence halls, classrooms, auditorium, and dining facilities during the summer months to house conference participants and other visitors.
- Housing Optimization - Optimize the utilization of Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon residence halls, increasing occupancy rates over the entire calendar year.
- Customer Relationship
Management Program - Implement a university-wide customer relationship management program that would provide students, parents, faculty and staff with a self-serve solution to their inquiries. Improve the quality of service vis-a-via the call center telephony solution and consider new virtual solutions.
- Paperless Strategy - Develop an institutional paperless strategy to reduce overall paper usage and paper-related costs.
- Centralized Leave
Tracking - Implement a university- leave tracking system that would increase the administrative efficiency of administering the university’s paid time off benefits.
- Leverage Internal GW expertise as
Consultants - Augment our external consulting partners by leveraging internal expertise in key areas historically requiring external consulting support.
- Migration to
the Cloud - Identify specific opportunities in three areas commonly referred to as the “Cloud”. By the NIST (National Institute for Science and Technology) definition the cloud encompasses generally: (i) software as a service (SAAS), (ii) infrastructure as a service (IASS), and (iii) platform as a service (PAAS).
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The Innovation Task Force is seeking creative ideas to improve and strengthen our academic and business operations to be even better.
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GW is fortunate that, thanks to prudent planning and investment, we have not faced the financial hardships currently affecting other universities. This situation gives us a unique opportunity to continue enhancing the excellence in everything we do. In fact, precisely because we are a strong university in good financial condition, it is an opportune time to analyze our operations in a fresh manner to seek new means for pursuit of our mission.
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