Center for Global Studies

Building a Cohesive Vision

Client

The Center for Global Studies (CGS) at the University of Illinois is a national resource center for the study of globalization.

Challenge

In its second year of operation, CGS was ready to introduce its vision and services online. They wanted to be able to build the depth and breadth of their site as their organization grew, without ending up with incoherent site architecture. They also wanted the site to collect and distribute data that they hadn't fully defined yet.

Solution

OJC quickly recognized that the stakeholders in the project all had varying visions of their organization, which is to be expected at such an early stage of an organization's development. Thus the first effort was to help CGS define their organization and create a common language to describe their mission and offerings.

Secondly, OJC created a flexible, intuitive architecture and graphic design that allowed for ever-changing images and project focus.

OJC customized an out-of-the-box Content Management System to provide database features. This affordably allowed CGS to create and collect data that will, in Phase II, be easily transferred to a more robust data management system.

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