Equipping Higher Ed: How Lucid Accelerators drive efficiency and innovation

Lucid, leveraging the combined power of Lucidchart and Lucidspark, provides a foundational platform to enhance your institution's efficiency. Here's how Lucid can amplify your efforts and help you address existing challenges with our new Accelerators:

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1. Lucid as your central hub: You can start by establishing a single, reliable source for all your processes and documentation using Team Spaces (a feature you already have access to). This approach will significantly reduce time spent searching for documentation, boost team collaboration, and help ensure that critical institutional memory is retained, even as staff roles evolve. Think of it for centralizing everything from student onboarding guides to curriculum development notes or departmental policy manuals.

2. The Process Accelerator: Beyond just documenting, the Process Accelerator helps you truly refine and optimize your workflows.

   • Consider implementing Repositories to centralize official documentation, making it easily searchable. This is ideal for official academic policies, research grant submission procedures, or student financial aid guidelines.

   • Explore Approval Workflows to streamline stakeholder reviews and ensure compliance. Use this for new course approvals, budget request sign-offs, or faculty promotion or tenure reviews.

   • And discover how the Asset Builder can help maintain consistency across all your visual processes by automatically updating shared elements, saving you time and mitigating risk. Imagine standardizing university branding elements, common diagram symbols for campus IT infrastructure, or reusable components for student service workflows.

3. The Agile Accelerator: For teams looking to embrace more flexible and responsive ways of working, the Agile Accelerator offers a supportive starting point.

   • You can utilize Blueprints to share scalable, proven agile templates. This could include standardized project plans for campus-wide initiatives, templates for course redesign sprints, or onboarding flows for new research teams.

   • Leverage Insights to gain valuable qualitative data on team confidence and potential risks, enabling proactive adjustments. Use this to track morale during a major system upgrade (like a LMS or SIS), identify roadblocks in a student success initiative, or assess team readiness for a new academic program launch.

   • And explore Scenario Planning to perform data-driven 'what if' analyses, helping you make confident decisions on major initiatives. This is perfect for modeling the impact of enrollment changes on departmental resources, planning for different budget allocation scenarios, or evaluating the feasibility of new campus initiatives. This empowers any higher education team to adopt modern, efficient practices, break down silos, and ensure vital knowledge endures.

4. The Cloud Accelerator: We understand that navigating a complex journey to the cloud can be daunting. The Cloud Accelerator aims to simplify this by providing specialized tools to gain network visibility across diverse cloud environments (Azure, GCP, AWS). This can enhance communication among IT teams and foster a more proactive culture for managing risk and optimizing your cloud presence. Consider its use for visualizing the migration of student information systems, planning for secure data storage for research, or optimizing cloud resources for online learning platforms.

Ready to accelerate your impact?

We believe that together, Lucid and its Accelerators can provide the clarity, agility, and control your higher education institution needs to visualize success and build the future faster.