Agreedo Announces Launch of Free Online Meeting Management Solution

Munich, Germany (I-Newswire) March 25, 2011 - Agreedo, a division of Siehec GmbH, based in Munich, Germany, announces the launch of their free online service that helps companies save money by optimizing wasteful meetings. Their dynamic set of tools allows users to create concise meeting agendas. This is accomplished by tracking tasks, decisions, notes, and most importantly, sending participants messages, follow-up tasks, and deadlines. In the process, valuable meeting minutes are created and can be viewed by all attendees.

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; no company, of course, consciously seeks to hold wasteful meetings. But as meeting planners can attest, holding productive meetings is easier said than done. It starts with effective planning – creating a compelling and realistic agenda, getting participants involved and engaged, and keeping the meeting itself as short as necessary.

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.

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About Siehec GmbH:
Siehec GmbH, founded in 2009, is a start-up based in Munich, Germany, and operates the meeting management solution "Agreedo".

Company Contact Information
Siehec GmbH
Robert Siebeck
Munich, Germany
81673
Phone : +49 -89 -38 15 74 14