SmartMeetings

It's all about meeting expectations. For businesses and industries everywhere, the recipe for success is varied, but one thing remains constant - the need for productive, efficient meetings and conferences. A meeting, in its truest form, brings together the best and most complete resources of an organization to invent, plan and ensure the success of its projects and endeavors. At their worst, meetings can be costly, unfocused and gainless, causing a hindrance to productivity and sometimes morale.

There are a number of factors that can help produce an effective event:

• Detailed planning
• Focused facilitation or mediation
• State-of-the-art meeting technology
• Proper meeting design
• Exceptional facilities

That's where the Hart eCenter at SMU comes in. By providing the needed planning, staffing, equipment and quality facilities, we empower your meeting process and help your company draw upon its greatest natural resources - the minds and expertise of your own talented staff - enabling you to solve any problem and create your own breakthroughs. It's a process we like to call "SmartMeetings" and it's based on the philosophy that with the right tools, proper facilities and minimum distractions, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Our meeting facilities are fully equipped with laptops and various collaborative softwares, which enables multiple locations and audiences to vote on specific decisions, as well as provide input. The Hart eCenter is also technologically ready for videoconferencing, electronic presentations and other networked technologies.

Plus, the Hart eCenter takes care of basic administrative tasks like meeting minutes and conference reports so you save the time and effort for tackling the real issues. We even provide analysis of your meeting afterwards so you can gauge your success. This, along with the option to have one of our certified facilitators at your meeting makes our services dynamic and reliable.

What if you could draw upon the varied disciplines and knowledge of our respected institution? Imagine the benefits of having some of the most intelligent and experienced experts from every field of study at SMU to enhance your meetings and help you achieve your goals. This is just one of the many values to conducting your meetings with the Hart eCenter at SMU. Depending on your objective, we can arrange to provide any number of multidisciplinary experts for your meeting. That can give you unparalleled insight into areas such as:

• Engineering
• Science
• Business
• Mathematics
• Advertising
• Law
• Ethics
• Sociology

The Hart eCenter offers all this and works with you to help customize, prepare and design the most efficient meeting possible - to meet any need or follow any desired structure. Because you're drawing on the reputation and experience of SMU, you know you can rely on a high-level of quality. Contact us today and start meeting expectations that you may never have thought possible. Call or email Pennington Ingley at 214-768-4278 or pingley@smu.edu.

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