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Follow on Google News | Agreedo Announces Launch of Free Online Meeting Management SolutionAgreedo is a new, free online service aiming to improve the efficiency of meetings.
By: Siehec GmbH Every employee knows a wasteful meeting when they experience it. Yet despite concerted efforts to reduce costs across the workplace, companies fail to proactively address this often-unquantifiable drag on the bottom line. Intuitively speaking, a meeting that serves no clear, explicit purpose keeps employees from doing their jobs: selling, working with customers, or improving products. Viewed through this lens, the costs are immense. Research indicates that opportunity costs – the lost productivity or value-added contributions made by participants because of inefficient or ineffective meetings – can equal three to 10 times what an employee normally earns. In fact, an extreme case study showed that wasteful meetings cost one company $1.6 million per year in lost productivity. Add to the equation the “soft costs” of wasteful meetings – lowered employee morale, widespread questioning of the competence of one’s superiors, and discontent caused by late or absent attendees. The choice for companies becomes clear: optimize your meetings. Such a charge seems self-evident; The biggest drain on resources, in fact, can occur after the meeting, when action items fail to be acted upon. Participants simply forget, they lack the incentive to follow-through, or other projects take precedence. It’s at this juncture the meeting planner will reengage and devote precious resources to follow-up. All the while, valuable time is lost. Throughout this drawn-out process, meeting planners may have an agenda and the impetus to hold a productive meeting; what they lack, however, is a user-friendly platform that synthesizes key steps, organizes information, and provides a methodological way to effectively track progress. Ageedo’s suite fills this void by helping companies make their meetings more efficient, more intelligent, and more actionable. Key features include: * Compatibility with major e-mail or scheduling platforms like Outlook, Lotus Notes, or Gmail * Functionality allowing users to add comments or items to meeting agendas, upload files, and readily schedule follow up meetings * Built-in search engine enabling instant searching across agenda, meeting notes, and user comments * An intuitive interface that automatically structures meeting minutes and tasks into logical hierarchies in an easy-to-follow format * Functionality assigning tasks to attendees with deadlines * Cross-team alerting system for when tasks are updated or completed Agreedo is available for free and can be accessed at Agreedo.com. http://www.agreedo.com http://blog.agreedo.com http://www.facebook.com/ http://www.twitter.com/ # # # Siehec GmbH, founded in 2009, is a start-up based in Munich, Germany, and operates the meeting management solution "Agreedo". End
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