Whether your institution is fearful, hesitant, optimistic, or “all in” on adopting AI, we have strategy and technology to help you lead the market.
AI, like most things is not one-size-fits-all. Each institution has a unique DNA when it comes to innovation, risk tolerance, student-centric focus, and adherence to things like turf and tradition.
Regardless of where your institution finds itself on the AI adoption curve, being in the game in some way is mission-critical to a sustainable future.
At Beyond, we have an empathetic approach to helping you adopt AI on campus. For example, if your academic enterprise is resistant to AI in the classroom, we’ll start with your student experience and transform that first. Conversely, if there is a growing appetite to leverage well-trained AI agents to help students with study skills, homework, supplemental learning, and even test preparation, we have the roadmap on how to get there.
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Since every school is unique, we take a unique approach to building and deploying your AI strategy using a proven and repeatable framework.
- It always starts with empathetic listening. What are your constituents asking for? What are they afraid of? What are the excited about? Our ThinkSpace sessions gather valuable insight based on the voices of your people first.
- Objective assessments like our Change Readiness Assessment help identify pockets of the institution that are ripe for transformation, and those who are better being brought along later.
- Visioning is important, so we vision with your executive team to identify where they want to take the institution in the future, so we can map the right roadmap to get there.
- Capability matters, so we assess your technology and functional teams to ensure they have the skills, competencies and bandwidth to adopt transformational technology today. If not, we build their upskilling into the larger roadmap.
- Start small, and go big from there. Our philosophy always looks to get small wins with “islands of excellence” within your institution so we can prove the ideas before scaling them institutionally from there. We’ll start with an area like advisement, recruitment, or even alumni relations, and get traction there, before asking others to jump on board.
- People change is harder than technology change, and only Beyond has the proven approach to move people while we change process and technology. Our careful investment into activating entrepreneurial mindset and adaptive leadership are foundational to your institution thriving in the AI economy. Simply buying more Ai won’t get it done.
Whether you’re pursuing an “amazon-like” experience for learners, or higher continuation and completion outcomes for them, stop buying “AI” software, and ask Beyond to guide the real transformation your institution needs. You’ll get far greater outcomes. We guarantee it.
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