Meeting Manager

Helps manage meetings by keeping track of costs.

Meetings are a necessary evil of corporate life. Often, people complain of wasting time in meeting. However, meetings cannot be avoided as they help take collective decisions in an efficient manner. One of the effective ways to keep everybody on their toes, is if a total cost number can be displayed to all the attendees in real-time. This would be the total cost of the hourly wages of the people involved in the meeting. While the cost of facilities like the meeting hall and other equipment in use also adds to the cost. However, the cost of people attending is the significant part. This desktop application displays these changing cost figures for all to see. The cost of the meeting is calculated in real-time based on current meeting attendees. The attendees list can be altered during the meeting too.

For any reason, if the cost numbers should be stopped from being updated then this cost update can be stopped, if necessary. Resume lets you restart the cost update when the current distraction is over. The frequency of update can be set at every second or every minute. The cost update can be made in multiple currencies. You can choose the suitable currency before updates start. Attendee groups can be configured according to need of the meeting. Application setting, meeting configuration, etc. are very easy to set. The interface is simple and intuitive. The displays are large enough to be viewed so that the attendees remain focused. Quite often meeting attendees tend to go off in tangents and engage in peripheral issues. When you see how the cost is rising every minute you waste time, the attendees will be back on the main issues quickly. This is a good tool.

Meeting Manager is a Microsoft Windows desktop application which calculates the real time, live cost of a meeting based on the attendees at the meeting.

The purpose of Meeting Manager is to keep meetings on track and as time efficient as possible by highlighting to all present the cost of the meeting in real time. Meetings on occasion can loose focus, change track and just completely go off the rails for any number of reasons. Meeting Manager gives the meeting participants a sense of urgency to return to the topic of the meeting or conclude the meeting as quickly as possible by detailing the exact cost.