Brainstorming: easily generate new ideas
With this Brainstorming template, generate new ideas as a team and move forward quickly.
Julia Cantel is an Engineering Lead at EDF since 2010. At the end of 2019, she will move to the United Kingdom to manage a major project: the construction of two new nuclear power plants. At the same time, Julia is creating an expatriate family association in the UK. Klaxoon allows her to set up an optimal functioning, and to encourage the members of the association to commit themselves 100% for the reception and the help to the expatriates' families.
Moving to the UK, Julia realizes that this can be a complicated step for families who must relearn how to live in a brand new country. The health restrictions of 2020 make these difficulties even more pronounced. Julia saw a need and an opportunity: to create an association of mutual aid between expatriate families in order to accompany newcomers to the country, and to facilitate their inclusion in their new teams at EDF.
Julia quickly noticed that her project was very well received by expatriate families, whose needs were numerous. She wishes to help them to:
To do this, the association works remotely using classic tools: emails, video-conference meetings... But none of them allows Julia to really activate participation and collective intelligence within the association. What she needs is a project management solution that is digital and participative, and hybrid enough to be as effective remotely as in person.
Julia discovered Klaxoon and Board Hybrid and immediately fell in love with this interactive project management solution, which facilitates the grouping of association members and activates collective intelligence and hybrid collaboration.
As a fan of Agile and brainstorming methods, Julia quickly adopted Board. With this tool, she can implement concrete Agile methods that allow her team to quickly define:
I am a big fan of Agile methods: my survival kit consists of stickers and whiteboards. Klaxoon replaces these elements wonderfully, and even allows to boost their effects.
In concrete terms, Julia has set up a ritual: every month, everyone gets together in Live, the videoconferencing tool integrated into the Board, in order to define one or more of the association's priorities. Julia uses many of Klaxoon's unique features, including the ability to time all meetings to keep them as productive as possible.
She encourages participation and collective intelligence via polls, idea sharing, voting to determine the best ideas... This way, she leaves no one out and ensures that everyone has a say in running the association.
Best of all, it makes participants more aware of the association's needs, while improving participation and commitment, which is crucial in an association.
Julia sees Board as a real project management tool. She prioritizes actions using an Eisenhower matrix and appoints leaders (pilots) for each action. She puts all this in place very quickly thanks to the efficient onboarding of the Klaxoon tool and the numerous templates, which can be installed in one click on the Board from the template library.
My goal is to make sure that each workshop offers us the maximum efficiency possible. It is operational excellence that I am looking for. And without Klaxoon, I would never have achieved it!
Visual management is at your fingertips with Klaxoon's Board, and all members can access the Board from any device at any time: it's the new way of working, more flexible, agile and hybrid than ever!
What are the results for Julia after adopting Klaxoon?
The results are numerous and are not long in coming:
- Determine all the elements that make up the association's identity (values, logo, objectives...),
- Choose the different techniques and tools that will be used by the association,
- Create internal teams each dedicated to a specific objective.
Julia was able to assemble a team of volunteers and build a fully functioning association in record time, made up of participants she had never even met. She finds that Klaxoon is both simple enough to be used by everyone and agile enough to adapt quickly to the team's needs. An integrated video conferencing, project management tool and visual management platform, Board Hybrid is the place where information is created and exchanged with an immediacy that Julia and her association appreciate. It allows to activate collective intelligence, participation and agility within a team. For Julia, it's simple: Klaxoon is "the best project management tool" she could hope for!
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