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| » 11 May 2009 |
| Shorter Meetings Software Patented IBM Brainchild |
| IBM's filing of a patent to challenge the "arbitrary hour-based scheduling paradigm" is great news for business executives who are tired of setting aside one hour for meetings even if the agenda isn't significant enough to fill the whole period. The recommendation on IBM's filed patent elucidates that the use of "integral units of time" that's based upon "hour or half-hour increments" for meetings has yielded significant amounts of wasted time. Business meetings are particular victims of this "predisposition" because they're always scheduled to last an hour regardless of the agenda and of whether the whole hour is needed in order to acknowledge the business at hand. The blurb concludes that hour-long meetings that could have taken less than an hour to complete will end up wasting a lot of time because of "the arbitrary hour-based scheduling paradigm" that businesses arbitrarily follow. It's the kind of report that many would agree with even as others would argue that it's simply stating the obvious. In any case, IBM's solution to this dilemma features more of the same "The sky is blue"-type statements: "If an hour were shorter, by a small amount, we would be more focused, and accomplish the same amount of work, but in less real time, thereby increasing productivity". IBM afterwards recommended a "time template including a plurality of predefined time intervals for scheduling meetings" that can be used "across a collaborative system". To clarify, the aforementioned plurality of time intervals "may include at least a first time interval having a first duration and a second time interval having a second duration different than the first time interval". With the impressive astuteness of a precocious young child with a business terminology dictionary, IBM clarifies that having a relatively shorter time period for each meeting could bring about relatively shorter meetings and appointments as well. Employers will subsequently be required to maintain greater focus on the meeting's agenda because of the shortened intervals and the need "to accomplish the goals of the meeting in the scheduled time". IBM also has a disclaimer for agendas that do need an hour of your time. They state: "Relatively longer time intervals may accommodate longer and/or more involved meetings." This way, employers could keep both the old hour-long meeting paradigm and the groundbreaking shorter time interval meeting depending on the situation. IBM's hour-redefining program's cost remains to be seen, but it doesn't take an hour-long or half-hour-long meeting by your company to decide against investing on this ridiculous, jargon-laden snake oil scam. |
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