Improved preplanning. The meeting minutes and notes structure the planning of problem-solving activities thereby improving it. These tolls add significant emphasis to preplanning meetings.

Faster collection and analysis of data. The teams realize an increase in efficiency when it comes to working with data they have gathered. For instance constructing a Pareto chart without the software took an average of 18 minutes. With the software this time was reduced to less than two minutes.

Open collaborative meeting atmosphere resulting in participative management. A key element of post-industrial management is to remove fear in the organization s people are more inclined to work together. More knowledge is gained and documented in the software.

Setting priorities and making decisions. The use of data provided is formatted in Pareto charts, cause and effect, etc. The teams then work on the top priorities to eliminate or reduce these problems.