ThoughtLink and corporate partner Blue Atlas have teamed to provide technical and support services to help teams work together more efficiently. They can help your organization use collaboration technologies more effectively to improve team performance.

To study and identify the most innovative and appropriate methods and technologies to help teams accomplish their goals.

Innovative Methods: ThoughtLink uses a variety of techniques to improve effectiveness, including gaming, organizational storytelling, knowledge management, complexity, organizational learning theory, and new approaches to training.

Innovative Technologies: ThoughtLink has a solid understanding and foundation in the areas of web-based gaming, intelligent agents, portals, collaboration, data visualization, wireless applications, simulation, and IT standards and interoperability.

Research and Experimentation: ThoughtLink has extensive experience in designing and running studies and experiments, including collecting and analyzing data, developing metrics, and publishing and sharing results when appropriate.

Include identifying the effective use of gaming, simulation and storytelling to building learning organizations. The company has evaluated training/exercise solutions and conducted research for a variety of government, international, and non-governmental organizations, including the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, individual military services, Canada's Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, and the Center for Humanitarian Cooperation. ThoughtLink has developed a number of in-house research tools and products, including TARGET , DICE , and SCUDHunt . All of these tools were developed to answer research questions related to team dynamics, individual effectiveness, or people's processes and interactions with technology and other individuals.