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The untenable increase in meeting volume is made worse by ineffective meetings. Seventy-one percent of senior managers told Harvard Business Review their meetings were unproductive and, in a different study, 73% of people said they “multitask” during meetings. More than 90% of respondents in that same survey admitted to daydreaming instead of focusing on the meeting conversation.

The Decisions development team has been hard at work this summer, building new features to help customers have better meetings. 

Every project requires meetings. In fact, managing a project is mostly a series of meetings.

Decisions can save you valuable time and resources to drive projects forward on time and on budget. It frees you up to focus on managing the project, instead of creating agendas and looking for earlier notes, action items and decisions. 

Microsoft Teams is the collaboration hub for Office 365 that integrates the people, content and tools for successful team communications. Now, it’s also a hub to successfully manage meetings. 

Oslo Metropolitan University, known as OsloMet, had a meeting challenge that is common among organizations: It was difficult to coordinate information among participants, and they often expressed frustration trying to find the materials on subjects and issues discussed in previous meetings.

Norwegian industrial engineering company, Tronrud Engineering, uses Decisions to extend Office 365 with a meeting management solution that enables the organization to plan, organize and follow-through for more success meetings.

Read the complete case study on the Microsoft Better With blog.

Decisions announces several new features to make planning, organizing and running meetings even more effective. 

In 2002, Daniel Kahneman received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on cognitive bias. He and Amos Tversky found leaders are overconfident in their decision-making: Personal biases, combined with poor processes and lack of preparation, lead to bad decisions. Further, research from Harvard professor Cass Sunstein revealed how the management team decision processes can escalate individual decision biases and make the situation worse.

Array Architects, a leader in designing healthcare facilities, was looking for a solution to help manage meetings with its board of directors.