INDUSTRY CASE STUDY:
GOVERNMENT BOARDS & COMMISSIONS

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Industry Challenge

Government boards, committees and other governmental oversight bodies play an important role in providing leadership, direction, and advice across many areas of government activity.  Boards and commissions also provide an effective link between the government and community by advocating change where needed and serving as stewards of a productive government that delivers quality service and best practice.  An effective and efficient government is more attainable with transparency and by providing ready access to government's work environment, status of progress, compliance, and active participation where needed.

Odysseus Solutions

Odysseus Offers a Programmatic Solution for Government Boards & Commissions to Coordinate Program Elements.

Odysseus™ | kms

The Odysseus™|KMS provides government board and committee members with a central repository where plans and other vital school procedures and protocol can be accessed and shared by staff and key stakeholders.  The secure yet flexible virtual collaborative environment allows for the efficient development, maintenance, and update of planning doctrine across the education enterprise.
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ODYSSEUS™ | CPM

The Odysseus™|Compliance Metric Tools are a data-driven, assessment that allows government board and committee members the ability to systematically evaluate the compliance to various governmental and industry recognized programs. 

ODYSSEUS™ | AAT

The Odysseus™ | AAT offers government board and committee members the ability to develop customized assessment tools that can be used to evaluate, assess, and understand their progress and program trends.

ODYSSEUS™ | cbt

​The Odysseus™|CBT allows for the delivery and tracking of learning across the Odysseus™ enterprise. Your programs, courses and exercises can be harmonized with your planning and other vital efforts while facilitating your strategy to deliver training and exercise content to your target audience.

Featured Best Practices

• Planning
• Training
• Testing & Exercises
• Compliance Metrics
• Participation
• Committee Management

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Government Planning

The Odysseus™ | KMS gives government board and committee members an online tool dedicated to the development and maintenance of vital government plans, procedures, and protocol.  Odysseus™|KMS offers government board and committee members  with the unique feature of providing standardization and flexibility in a collaborative environment.  This union greatly increases the government capabilities by efficiently and effectively enabling board and committee members to coordinate the design, develop, maintain, and continually improve government planning efforts, operations, and programs.  

Customized Courses & Training Management

The Odysseus™|CBT plug-in provides governmental entities with an integrated learning management system that allows administrators to more effectively deliver and measure understanding across the Odysseus™ enterprise.  Odysseus™|CBT provides a platform to deliver and manage customized computer-based training, track course assessments, award certificates upon course completion, and in-depth reporting of learner progress and understanding. 

Simulated Testing & Exercise Scenarios

 Designed from the Odysseus™|CBT framework, the Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator incorporates cutting-edge media technology to  deliver an interactive, best practice solution to accurately test and validate government's operational and programmatic strategies, while effectively engaging participants in important tests and exercises..  Exercise designers can build an interactive environments, visualize operational scenarios, and experience real-world crisis decision-making. The Odysseus™ Exercise Simulator provides an easy-to-use, turnkey solution to accurately test and validate a community's operational and programmatic strategies, while engaging stakeholders and impressing your organization's leadership.

School Compliance Assessments

Designed from the Odysseus™|AAT architecture, the Odysseus platform offers a customized compliance assessments tools that is consistent with federal and state regulatory requirements and guidelines.  Government board and committee members can assess their government's compliance and integrate the results into their existing planning framework.

Community Participation and Awareness

 The Odysseus™ enterprise offers a variety of tools that can be used to efficiently engage government employees and the public, and solicit their participation in the planning process. Customized Odysseus™|CBT interactive planning participation module allows committee members, stakeholders, and the public to learn about current programs and provide real-time feedback and input in the plan development.  Customized Odysseus™|AAT survey instruments allows participants to provide input in the planning process and inform the management strategies of government board and committee members. 

Committee Management

In today’s environment of fiscal efficiency, limited availability of resources, and the necessity to balance competing demands, it is imperative that the engagement of assigned work groups and key stakeholders is efficient and effective. The committee management tool within the Odysseus™|KMS will assist in documenting the planning process, provide a method of on-going committee collaboration, offer an archival repository of planning meeting minutes and information, and ensure the active participation of committee members and key stakeholders throughout the life-cycle of the planning process.