The ultimate consultant’s toolbox, OptionFinder contains a variety of group
audience polling and analysis capabilities that dramatically improve the effectiveness, speed, and value of your consulting processes.
Requiring little more than a laptop, projector, presentation screen, and the
OptionFinder audience response system, you can turn any client meeting or workshop into a focused, energized session where decisions are quickly made, resources are rapidly allocated and team collaboration is dramatically increased.
Designed by facilitators for facilitators, OptionFinder is a portable, highly flexible
group response system that combines decision support software and
wireless audience response keypads.
This technology helps groups explore complex ideas as they use keypads to anonymously rank options, issues, and ideas. As questions or lists of items are presented to participants, they “vote”, expressing their opinion by using the audience response systems as their voice. Polling results are immediately displayed so that the alignment or the disparity within the group can be explored.
Highly affordable, OptionFinder is now available with OptionFinder IR wireless keypads. These reliable, infrared handsets are price-optimized for small- to medium-sized groups of up to 80 people (larger capacity systems are also available). OptionFinder IR handsets are also size-optimized for convenient packing and travel. They even have two-way vote verification, so you’ll know your data audit trail is always secure.
OptionFinder provides three substantial benefits as it helps consulting professionals:
Improve Consulting Processes
You can integrate your existing diagnostic exercises or assessment tools into OptionFinder, where participants can respond to questions and immediately discuss the results after each poll. This real-time display of anonymous polling results eliminates group politics and creates powerful discussion dynamics that allow you to unearth information
not likely be shared in a standard survey.
Accelerate Group Decision Making
Quickly rate, rank, and prioritize ideas, options, and resources – all of which can be brainstormed “on-the-fly" during your client session. OptionFinder’s List Processing Tool saves time by making it easy for groups to evaluate large lists of items in a matter of minutes. For example, groups can rate each item in a 10-item list against a 1-5 scale of importance (where 1 is equal to no importance and 5 is equal to high importance).
Participants use an audience reponse system to assign a rank to each item. Once the audience voting is complete, a results graph is displayed showing how the items scored from highest to lowest. The results clearly illustrate to your client the items that are considered most important and least important. In addition, you can evaluate this same list against a second criterion (e.g., a 1-5 scale of feasibility) for X-Y analysis (see above images).
OptionFinder’s Groups Tool gives you the ability to segment polling results by demographic subcategories (i.e., department, gender, age, etc.) so you can explore important similarities and differences between groups (see images below).
How Management Responded
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How Operations Responded
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Provide Added Value to Clients
Leveraging OptionFinder audience response technology, you can provide your clients with actionable data that improves decision-making, resource allocation, and other group response and processes. As you use OptionFinder to explore group opinion and keep everyone focused on key issues, you will improve your clients’ decision-making processes. Because OptionFinder speeds up collecting and compiling of data by as much as tenfold, you can spend more time collaborating with your clients to create optimal solutions.
To learn more about the use of OptionFinder in decision support applications, check out the application notes listed below:
Taking the Pulse of an Organization
Linking Strategy to Action
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