On collaboration. Our background in organization development and P&L management feeds our passion about the need for teams to stay connected. We believe you can use the group's collective intelligence to gather important information and to build support for better decisions.
The ability to view what everyone is thinking makes a huge impact on how people work together: you will share knowledge, gather confidence levels in proposed strategies, stay on track after decisions are made, and benefit from rapid course corrections when these are needed.
Having a common platform to share planning, priorities and action steps gives everyone a chance to stay involved and up-to-date, so your organization will be more agile..

On the GroupMind. A central tenet of our thinking is the idea that mining the collective ideas of a group improves its ability to make smarter, more informed decisions. Through the use of our collaboration platform, individuals can share their thinking and focus their efforts toward shared purpose and goals.
Seeing ideas play out on a level playing field creates a smarter, more agile organization.

On strategic alignment. This is what our tools and our consulting work toward: a state where different people in various parts of the organization have a shared understanding and focus on what is of overarching importance to the enterprise as a whole, in order to achieve its competitive position. In an aligned system, people work together rather than at cross purposes.

Please read some of our thinking, in these White Papers (.pdf files):

• Unleashing the Power of the GroupMind
• Collaboration: a New Requisite for Managers
• Effective Decision Making
• Designing Interaction into Meetings
• Maintaining Momentum after a Strategic Meeting
• A Collaborative Facilitation Guide