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May 6, 2016 In Business By Jaakko Pellosniemi

Collaboration – What’s the fuss?

Let’s start by looking at what collaboration actually means, where does the word come from? So glad you asked. Collaboration comes actually from a conglomerate of a French word and a late latin word. Tracing collaboration back to its origins, we arrive at collabōrō, which means to work together. Turns out this working together was already important during ancient roman times. But at the same time it’s one of those empty phrases you might find in...

April 29, 2016 In Fingertip App, Release By Jaakko Pellosniemi

The biggest release in our history

When I started Fingertip I asked myself, what if we could solve all the pain and frustration that go along with poor organizational decision making. What if we could create a place to commit to decisions and create accountability. What if I would actually be able to influence a decision that will affect my work. What if we could solve all the pain and frustration that goes along with poor organizational decision making. What if...

April 15, 2016 In SDM 101 By Jaakko Pellosniemi

The proverbial learning point

Have you ever worked on a project where things just went horribly wrong, what is the one thing that will happen in these situations? More than certainly one person will utter something along the lines of ‘let’s take it as a learning point’. Sounds like exactly the thing you learn to say in a long history of corporate theater. But what does it actually mean? How do you take something as a learning point, who...

April 1, 2016 In SDM 101 By Fingertip

Time for academics!

Last September I started working on my thesis, which is about decision making and how especially people in groups commit to and engage with decisions. This is a topic that has always interested me because this is what everyone working witnesses everyday.  I contacted Fingertip for a chance to create my research abouLast September I started working on my thesis, which is about decision making t their decision making application. The most interesting thing for...

March 22, 2016 In Uncategorized By Jaakko Pellosniemi

Why should we even bother about documenting decisions?

Last week we took a look at why it’s difficult to document decisions. But why should we actually care? What’s done is done isn’t it? Well partially. If we would live in a world where things are decided once and then execute themselves by themselves that would be the case but in reality it’s a little different. Let’s start by looking at how decisions are documented. Traditionally we make decisions somewhere between emails and meetings and if...

March 14, 2016 In Uncategorized By Jaakko Pellosniemi

The challenge to document and track decisions

How much of your time at work do you spend waiting on decisions, how often did you not know anymore what was decided in which context by whom? Happens, right? It’s typical for our modern work day. A day in which we use a myriad of technological advances and still face the digital disconnectivity more than ever. The reason for this is that a lot of our work is about deciding and executing decisions but...