Get rid of that proverbial elephant in decision making events.
Decision making made enjoyable with easy to use software.
Our Beliefs
- We believe that decision making is among the most important of all company activities that affects every employee.
- We believe that data in decision making should be not anonymous.
- We believe that employees should have easy to use tools for participation in decision making.
- We believe employees should have access to all data from decisions.
- We believe that decision making and problem solving should be an enjoyable activity.
EXAMPLE SESSION
A Teams Get It session has two parts. One is to suggest, prioritize, and select solution options. The second is to do the same for action items for each of the selected solution options.
The data for this example are fictitious but realistic for a company preparing a diversity, equity, and inclusion program. Below is the landing page for a completed session.
It is suggested that you login to see for yourself what is possible. Launch the link below. Click that you have not yet registered. Enter an email and password (you can use pretentious data if you don’t want to be recognized). You can also bypass providing your photo if you wish.
diversity.vgdss-86-20.com/IF79xj/custom
The green tabs can be clicked to see results. The grayed-out tabs were for data input but the session has been closed. The landing page tab is on every screen and can be clicked at any time.
SUGGEST SOLUTION OPTIONS
A session starts with participants suggesting solution options. The words “solution options” could be replaced by decision options, alternatives, problems, or ideas.
Tabular Reports
Each participant rates each of the options and then chooses what data to see.
CHARTS TO SEE WHO PREFERRED WHAT OPTIONS
Click and see the number of times each option was chosen as a preference. Click and see who selected each option.
CHARTS TO SEE HOW PARTICIPANTS RATED OPTIONS
The first chart shows all options plotted. Hover over a dot to see its name. Click on a dot and click again to see who’s data is included in that data point.
FINAL REPORT
A final report includes all session input data including photos and names of contributors with their inputs. A final report is automatically provided. This can be saved as a pdf, printed, or emailed.
ASK
Ask us anything and we promise a response the same day. We will promise not to bug you afterwards with emails and phone calls. All communication is kept private.
FAQ's
Training
People say “Wow this is easy and intuitive”. The amount of time for training is about fifteen minutes for first time team members and thirty minutes for first time session originators.
ABOUT US
The Academy of Culture Ambassadors was founded by Gerald R. Wagner, PhD. He was a co-founder of the fields known as Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) and had four startups in Austin, TX related to these.
In his first startup called Execucom Systems Corp, he created what he called the Planning Lab. This was a room with a custom-built table with computer terminals embedded in the top. It had two uses (1) for participants to suggest assumptions to be what iff'd using the company’s simulation language and (2) for participants to suggest solutions for problems. The later had similarities to Teams Get It. With current technology, many enhancements and removal of location and facilitation constraints the Teams Get It software could be thought of as a reincarnation of the Planning Lab.