Meeting Support Institute

"Meetings are an extremely complex phenomenon where many aspects of everyday
life play a part and come together. Meetings are often inefficient and expensive. Factors of meeting success relate mostly to the extent to which the meeting expectations that exist beforehand are achieved. Meeting preparation, control and the willingness to contribute are central. Meetings should be balanced and not be monopolized by one or two dominant people as this inhibits the participation of others and the creativity to generate ideas or solutions. Technology has improved meetings ever since the invention of telegraphy in the 1850's. It was shown that the ability to interact remotely is thus far perhaps one of the greatest technological achievements for the meeting process. Several applications have been shown that are bene cial to meetings, before, during and after their occurrence."