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Reengineering Meetings: New Approaches to Communication and Collaboration in Meeting Contexts
Type
industry project
Start Date
14 March 2015
End Date
28 February 2017
Acronym
ReMeet
Status
ongoing
Keywords
Communication
collaboration
meetings
management
Description
In the "Reengineering Meetings" research project we examine the potential of incremental and radical reinventions to improve communication and collaboration in meetings to create more engagement and effectiveness in meetings.
Meetings are the backbone of organizations as they are used to analyze, decide and implement organizational action. The average employee spends six hours per week in meetings, supervisors even more, says an MIT study. Meetings are held face-to-face and increasingly online.
Meetings cover a broad array of organizational sense making including
- Meetings to discuss a change in process
- Meetings to discuss a client's needs or wants
- Meetings to routinely discuss the state of the business
- Meetings to discuss an ongoing project
- Meetings to discuss quality, policy and compliance
- Meetings to identify problems and propose solutions
It is surprising that most meetings are held just as they were 20 years ago. Employees report to be disengaged frustrated, meetings suffer from a lack of productivity and both employees and organizations are fatigue of (PowerPoint) meetings. However, few organizations (such as Intel and Amazon) have been able to turn around meetings from a productivity killer into a productivity catalyst. Meetings offer a great variety of opportunities to transform them into new levels of engagement and effectiveness.
Therefore, the project "Reengineering Meetings" aims to create new approaches that enhance communication and collaboration in meetings - through incremental and radical reinventions, with individual and collective effort, for face-to-face and online meetings.
Meetings are the backbone of organizations as they are used to analyze, decide and implement organizational action. The average employee spends six hours per week in meetings, supervisors even more, says an MIT study. Meetings are held face-to-face and increasingly online.
Meetings cover a broad array of organizational sense making including
- Meetings to discuss a change in process
- Meetings to discuss a client's needs or wants
- Meetings to routinely discuss the state of the business
- Meetings to discuss an ongoing project
- Meetings to discuss quality, policy and compliance
- Meetings to identify problems and propose solutions
It is surprising that most meetings are held just as they were 20 years ago. Employees report to be disengaged frustrated, meetings suffer from a lack of productivity and both employees and organizations are fatigue of (PowerPoint) meetings. However, few organizations (such as Intel and Amazon) have been able to turn around meetings from a productivity killer into a productivity catalyst. Meetings offer a great variety of opportunities to transform them into new levels of engagement and effectiveness.
Therefore, the project "Reengineering Meetings" aims to create new approaches that enhance communication and collaboration in meetings - through incremental and radical reinventions, with individual and collective effort, for face-to-face and online meetings.
Leader contributor(s)
Member contributor(s)
Hieronymi, Andreas
Partner(s)
ECB
Pictet
others
Funder(s)
Topic(s)
Communication
collaboration
meetings
meeting management
creativity
decision support
IT
Method(s)
Secondary research
experiments
action research
Range
Institute/School
Range (De)
Institut/School
Division(s)
Eprints ID
240313