How do you develop plans and ideas?

• You put your ideas down in a draft document.
• You mail this out to the colleagues.
• They send you feedback.
• You update the document and mail it out again.


You are doing it all wrong!



What is so bad about the way you are working?

• You waste time trying to understand the feedback and integrate it into the document.
• You cannot send out new copies every hour, so your team aren't aware of each others' feedback.
• one suggests 'a lighter blue' when another has already decided to change 'blue' to 'black'.
• Or if your colleagues start 'reply-to-all', the discussion dissolves into multiple threads, and no-one remembers what the decision were.
• The old drafts hang around in people's inbox... and often get used instead of the correct version.
• It's tedious to see the changes between drafts... and even more tedious to see who initiated what changes.
  

• You send out a link, which always gives the latest version of the document.
• All your colleagues can edit the document online.
• and when they make changes, that becomes the new 'latest version'.
• It's easy to compare any versions of the document, and see who made the changes.
• because there are no side-discussions in e-mail, how decision were formed becomes clear.
• But you keep control. You get notified whenever the document changes.

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