The Benefits

1. Ultimate Collaboration
When groups of people talk together, they can be segmented into individual strengths. When groups of people talk together at Mohawk's Management Decision Centre, they are collaboratively linked into one thinking process that combines their strengths. Thanks to the unique collaborative process, the best results rise to the top for debate, discussion, recommendation and approval.

2. Shared and Parallel Processing
During a Mohawk Management Decision Centre meeting, everyone can "talk" at once. Each participant contributes their ideas through a computer terminal linked to a powerful server and three large screens. Ideas are instantaneously captured and dynamically exchanged thanks to specialized software. Immediate idea generation and feedback are both encouraged and enabled. An independent voting process allows the group to collectively determine the top issues and/or the top solutions, quickly and comfortably.

3. Complete and Accurate Record Keeping
All participant comments are automatically documented, and each person can contribute actively in the meeting. The entire group can easily refer to what has been discussed and recorded, and accelerate the decision making process.

4. Save Time
Participants in the Mohawk Decision Management Centre have reported time saved from 50% to 90% from their usual meeting time required.

5. Anonymity
Throughout most of the process, each individual's actions and comments are anonymous. Participants enter ideas via the keyboard, and react to the comments of others, all without revealing individual identities. The Mohawk Management Decision Centre thus encourages open communication and ensures ideas are evaluated on their own merit without regard to source. The influence of politics and personality are subtly removed, creating a level playing field where the best ideas prevail.

6. Quality of Outcomes
Each group of participants uses the Mohawk Management Decision Centre system to produce high-value decisions and action plans focused on critical issues, all collaboratively identified, understood and acted on.

7. Beneficial Results
Participants in the Mohawk Management Decision Centre discover a renewed commitment to purpose -- the driving force behind effectiveness, productivity and profitability.

8. Computer Literacy Not Required
Mohawk's Management Decision Centre makes every effort to render the computers transparent to the process and secondary to the problem-solving steps.