The customer: Meet Nintex
Nintex is a process management and automation software company that provides tools for managing, automating, and optimizing business processes and workflows. So, it’s no surprise that they’re constantly looking to make their own processes (and meetings) more efficient!
As the VP of Engineering at Nintex, Johan Van Heerden is responsible for delivering software that meets the customers’ needs – as fast as possible. Johan is also responsible for engineering integration of acquisitions at Nintex to stretch the company globally.
In order to achieve these ambitious goals, Johan and his team follow the 3 core values of Nintex:
Don’t wait.
Deliver on commitments.
Operate with respect and consideration.
In fact, with those 3 core values in mind, Johan saw an opportunity…
Johan’s challenge:
Lots of questions to ask, nowhere to keep them.
It’s no surprise that capturing important information is a necessary part a VP of Engineering’s job. Whether it’s meeting notes or to-dos, having a place to keep all of this information is essential.
Johan works with around 50 people per week, and before Fellow, Johan was using sticky notes to keep track of meeting notes for each touchpoint.
You can imagine that with that many sticky notes, it can be hard to keep track of what was discussed.
Additionally, it can get tricky to stay on top of goals, professional development, and decisions made when that information is easily lost!
Clearly, Johan needed a better way to keep his team accountable and his meetings productive.
The solution: Having a central hub for meetings
With Fellow, Johan can keep meeting notes in one place, reflect on past decisions, and never forget what was discussed with his direct reports.
Fellow connects to your work calendar, which makes it easy for Johan to jump from meeting to meeting and add notes as important talking points pop into his head throughout the day.
This way, not only does Johan show up prepared for one-on-ones and team meetings, but his team has also developed great meeting habits to ensure everyone is responsible for contributing to the meeting agenda beforehand.
Johan and his teams now have a full history of past meeting notes and action items and decisions; plus, they are empowered to add their own talking points in advance to create more efficient and productive meetings.
90.28% of managers agree or strongly agree that with Fellow, meetings are more likely to have an agenda.
The results: Team collaboration that is a lot more efficient and gives leaders the ability to remove things that didn’t necessarily have to be discussed synchronously. 🎉
Additionally, Johan says that Fellow provides helpful meeting insights that decrease the number of touchpoints across many verticals, reducing his overall time spent in meetings by 50%.
That’s powerful for a VP of Engineering responsible for delivering quality software to customers as fast as possible.
Johan’s most significant benefit from using Fellow was the ability for multiple teams to come together and collaborate, regardless of time zones or overlapping schedules.
