Advantages of Electronic Meeting Systems
Electronic meeting systems have been designed to enhance group effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction. Face-to-face groups can suffer from a number of process losses including:
- domination of the conversation by one or more members
- individuals withholding comments for fear of criticism or negative evaluation
- members failing to participate because they perceive that their input is not required
- pressure to conform with senior members of the group
Consequently, the advantages of EMS supported meetings vs traditional face-to-face meetings and workshops are:
- increased openness and less personal prejudice through anonymity
- any-place (online) capability which avoids travel time and cost
- increased participant availability (any place, any time).
- increased interactivity and participation by parallelization
- more sophisticated analysis by voting and analysis in real time
- less effort in preparation by using meeting templates
- repeatable meeting and workshop process through meeting templates
- automatic, comprehensive, neutral documentation
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