How It Works

How do you drive results when working with a team? Think back to the last important decision you made with a group. What was your process for discussing options? How did you come to consensus? What did you do after making the decision? Did your decision ever get acted on?

More often than not, collaboration and decision-making is a hodge-podge of emails, one-on-one phone calls, conference calls, in-person meetings, and informal desk visits. It's rare that a group ends up with a unified view of how a decision was reached - or a complete record of next steps and task owners.

Guided decisions, recorded outcomes, defined actions. What if you could combine the advantages of a collaboration environment with decision-making best practices like cost-benefit analyses and responsibility matrices? What if you could guide people to vote on decisions? What if you could assign action items and draft a timeline in the same environment?

In some ways, it'd be like hiring an expert project manager. You'd get decisions that were more thorough. You'd get outcomes you could hold people accountable for. In the long run, you'd refine and improve your process for making decisions.

That's some of the thinking behind the creation of SAP StreamWork. In short, it's meant to help orchestrate ad hoc work that would otherwise lack a structured process flow. It's a place where outcomes are recorded for future reference. Continue reading to learn how SAP StreamWork can improve your group decisions - or see it in action in this short introductory video.

SAP StreamWork Is Cohesive

Unite people, information, and business methods: Get teams to commit to a cause by bringing the conversation together, inviting people from inside or outside the organization, putting all information in plain view, and applying methods to drive to a resolution.

Keep everyone on the same page: Ensure everyone is involved and leverage the knowledge of others to reach the best outcome. Stay in synch with notifications, activity streams, and action items. Follow discussions, documents, and events for a work activity.

Work with your existing applications: No need to switch applications. Launch a meeting directly in WebEx®, share notes or images from EVERNOTE®, or start a new work activity directly from email (Microsoft Outlook®, Google Gmail™, etc.)

Create a corporate memory for repeated success: Understand how decisions are made and how to make success repeatable. All discussions, information, feedback, methods, and decisions are saved and can be shared or re-used.

SAP StreamWork Is Results-Driven

Give structure to discussions and create a collective view with business methods: When maneuvering in unexplored territories, use proven pre-configured, interactive business tools to brainstorm, strategize, build consensus, and drive fast decision-making. Choose from the built-in catalog to select business tools:

• Agenda - build meeting agendas and revise in real-time as the plan changes.
• Ranking - create and prioritize a list with the team.
• Pro/con table - add pros and cons with comments from each contributor.
• Consensus - make a proposal, collect feedback, and get the team on the same page.
• Quick poll - collect input quickly on key questions for the team.
• SWOT matrix - analyze the competition.
• Cost/benefit analysis - map options to help highlight the best opportunities.
• Responsibility matrices - identify team responsibilities using proven approaches (RACI, DACI, ARCI, RASIC).

Make the best decisions by working from the same information: Upload and share documents to ensure the entire team is making the best decisions based on the current facts. Develop hypotheses and analyze with the team using intuitive data exploration and visualization technology.

SAP StreamWork Is Built for Speed

Be productive immediately: Be up and running immediately. Connect with others at no charge or drive decisions for free.

Customize to meet specific business needs: With an open architecture, developers can create custom business tools and integrations into corporate applications.

Streamline maintenance: Because it's software as a service (SaaS), it's delivered over the web. No need to update or maintain software or hardware.

 
 

Video: SAP StreamWork

See how SAP StreamWork can improve your group decisions - watch this short introductory video