Idaho State helps businesses with decisionmaking The most common business decisionmaking tool is the committee meeting. It's also the most unproductive. Business and government groups use the center's facilities and expertise to improve meetings aimed at developing anything from corporate strategies to training programs. The computerized Simplot system allows people to anonymously contribute to the decisionmaking process without such fears. Another advantage of the system is it allows managers to make decisions with complete input from their colleagues.
Ideas rise and fall on their own merit without any reference to who put it up.
When observed from the outside, an SDC session moves in waves of activity. Schou notes that one particularly contentious brainstorming session generated more than 1,000 ideas in less than 20 minutes. At first glance, this seems to be an unmanageable number, but by using artificial intelligence engines within the Paradigm software and other manual tools, the list was cut down to 23 categories in another 25 minutes. But nothing is ever lost in an SDC session because a complete transcript of all ideas is kept by computer. The center is designed to help the egoless process.