Interactive management structured mapping integrates ideas and improves group decision-making

Many complex issues require a team of decision-makers to interact in a cohesive fashion. However, conventional committee meetings, lacking a structured approach to decision-making, are not best suited to making decisions about highly complex, multiobjective problems. Executive managers find that over 60% of their time is consumed by routine meetings arranged to coordinate the activities of subordinates or other interested parties. Many say they find this to be an expensive use of their time when they compare the time consumed against the results achieved. Interactive management brings a new efficiency to this problem. It both reduces the need for repetitive meetings to handle the same issue and increases the effectiveness of those meetings that still have to be held.