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Company meetings are not about the tech or tools you can throw at them. It is about the culture. Some companies understand that and minimize their meetings and
by system2 8y ago
Company meetings are not about the tech or tools you can throw at them. It is about the culture. Some companies understand that and minimize their meetings and solely depend on project management systems.
Unless you can find a tool to make these people understand the culture has a problem (also the hierarchy), I don't think any new tool can help.
Note: Basecamp, zoho and all others promise similar tools. You might want to change the intro video, maybe invest in voice-over with basic demo.
- genevpd 8y agoThanks for your suggestion on landing page! The problem we see is that companies in their transition from physical office to a virtual and distributed workplace carried over all the meeting habits that are outdated. We believe there is no longer need in standing meetings with fixed audiences. With Meetter, you are basically setting your weekly meetings budget for the whole company and let topics compete for that time. This is a lot different from what is happening today: meetings fight for all the available time on everyone's calendar. Meetter hours are not finalized until 15 minutes before the start. High priority, smaller and shorter topics win. Meetter makes all meetings about what they should be: about solving problems, not about socializing & sharing updates - there are less expensive ways to do that. Can tool change the culture? We are optimists and believe they can.
- system2 8y agoHave you experienced these yourself or seen it from outside (like a tech consultant)?
- genevpd 8y agoYes, I have personally struggled a lot. About 5+ years of experience working in a highly distributed company where meetings for me and many colleagues take more than 50% of the time. There a lot of advice out there on how to improve things, but it takes time to master. The other problem is that it is not something that only you need to learn, all your peers have to and that takes time. There are also limits to what you can do with existing technology. Compare the difficulty of doing project task tracking in MS Word versus JIRA/Trello/Basecamp. With meetings, we are still at MS Word stage and Meetter is a JIRA/Trello for meetings.