The Decision Strategist

I have never, until today, understood the appeal of twitter. But I just followed my first twitterer: Guy Kawasaki, and I’m suddenly made very aware of how powerful it is.

Basically in your personal time line you see all the updates from anyone you’ve chosen to follow. If you need to make decisions as a group or have group discussions (not in real-time, then you could just use pidgin) it is extremely easy to get something to all of your followers. All you have to do is post an update and everyone will see it. The great thing is you can post an update from your phone or from IM or on the web.

“But Zot”, you say, “why go through the trouble, why not have a conference call?” Sometimes decisions that need to be made need to be discussed, a variety of options need to be considered, and it may be difficult or unnecessary to get everyone together at the same time. Imagine how useful this would be to a small startup with employees scattered over the globe. No need for someone to be awake at odd hours, and everyone can participate.

I have in mind something like this, but with an explicit structure for facilitating decision making and problem solving.

Go forth and twitter. If you want to follow me you can find me here. Leave a comment and I’ll follow you too.

-zot

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This entry was posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 3:05 pm and is filed under Decision Making, Ideas.