Product

Mg is a business execution tool for companies with more than 5 employees. It helps your business to:

• focus on strategic goals,
• define and delegate tasks,
• run meetings efficiently and
• consistently followup delegated tasks.
  

It achieves this through integration with Microsoft Outlook, E-mail and mobile clients (currently iPhone and BlackBerry).

Mg follows a simple but efficient philosophy of Business Execution, that is core part of every feature.

Tasks must have:

• single owners
• defined results
• clear deadlines.

Employees must be able to:

• commit to a specific task completion to generate trust
• ability to break tasks down into smaller tasks and delegate further
• delegate effectively to the ‘right’ person for the task
• focus on important tasks - prioritize
• build task oriented meeting agenda and review tasks during meetings

How does Mg work?

Mg is an Outlook plugin that is deployed throughout a company in a top down fashion. It presents a personalized my-action-dashboard of all the current execution tasks that the individual is involved in:

• Tasks are prioritized automatically in the most natural way by task sender, due date, target and formal priority setting.
• Simple drag-and-drop tools allow task breakdown into smaller sub tasks, delegation-out, and sub delegation.
• Tasks ‘delegated-in’ (assigned to the individual) are accepted (committed), rejected, or negotiated within the tool’s workflow.
• The tool updates Status vs. Commitment continuously so that delegated tasks get the same attention as tasks that the individual will complete by himself.
  

Mg Meeting Module

Good execution starts with efficient meetings that enable participants to successfully discuss ideas, agree on required tasks, efficiently distribute them and later follow-up with their execution.

Mg has a meeting module that is directly integrated into Outlook Calendar module. As you schedule a meeting, you can quickly assemble agenda based on tasks of meeting participants and ensure that everyone comes to meeting prepared.

Mg also helps you efficiently run your meeting. Agenda topics and connected tasks are part of conduct meeting screen. You can add meeting minutes directly to each agenda topic, complete tasks, create new one and distributed them automatically to all meeting participants.

If you pair Mg conduct meeting screen with an overhead project, you can ensure that everyone sees the same agenda and created tasks, which reduces ambiguity. Delegated tasks also have meeting minutes attached directly to them, so it’s always clear why and how a person got the task delegated.

How does Mg compare to personal productivity tools

Mg is a networked tool that integrates your whole team, allows tracking of delegation and automatically informs you when your delegated tasks are completed. Personal productivity tools focus only on you and don’t provide benefits that come from having integrated solution that doesn’t require you to manually keep track of your teams tasks.

How does Mg compare to Microsoft Project?

Traditional Project management software requires you to structure your work in projects with clear timeline at the beginning. They don’t reflect organic structure of organization that splits and delegates tasks and reacts to changes in the environment. Mg allows you consistently track all tasks in your organization and organize them inside projects without losing flexibility of the tool.

What do we need to start using Mg?

You need to be able to install our plugin for Outlook 2007 and connect your computers to Internet. Afterwards, sign-up for a network, and start inviting your employees to it. Internet version of Mg is completely free to use, without any limitations.

We also offer Mg as on-site appliance and execution consulting services to help you transition your business to more execution focused company.