Collaborative work and innovation continues to get more difficult. Many organizations face big challenges in leading their teams, aligning human capital, and responding to changing markets as they attempt to accomplish ambitious goals faster. Today, 60% of knowledge workers’ time is spent on tasks related to coordinating work.  Moreover, guiding the team and making decisions within and across teams is chaotic and complex during the creative and strategic phase. 

The difficulty of the phases prior to execution was illustrated in the early 90’s by Damien Newman.

Without an effective system and collaborative workspace, teams move slowly, miss deadlines, and fail to take advantage of their human capital. 

This results in inefficiency during this fragile process that can keep the team divided and keep decision-making in the sole hands of one individual. This leads to questions going unanswered, and employees spending more time seeking information, looking for examples, responding to messages, or making assumptions, all in an attempt to provide clarity and accountability to their teams. This is particularly true during the ideation and strategic phase where each person has a personal way to think and approach problems. And while no thinking system is wrong or right, without a common thinking process that guides team decisions and actions, teams cannot align and move forward.

Nova is the first guided collaboration space for effective thinking. Our system collects and structures institutional knowledge about the company’s thinking systems, values and decision making and provides a real-time roadmap for current and future initiatives – guiding the team in each step of the process.  Our platform is built on our multi-dimensional space – which we think of as a kind of “collective brain” for a business.

The core of our application are the processes, allowing organizations and their teams to easily customize project processes and implement their methodologies (design thinking, agile, etc) Once a process is defined, it can be saved as a template, automated  and scaled across an organization for consistent, repeatable process management that will guide the organization during each project and will save hours of work and coordination.

Nova is the visual digital space where everyone knows who, what, when, and how.

All sessions include:

• Session objective
• Start and due date (+duration)
• Assignees (team members, guests, anonymous guests)
• Conclusions (takeaways)
• Process (step-by-step instructions)
• The Right digital & collaborative space (you can choose a whiteboard, a list session, create a quiz,  or even a training session) 

Nova lets you pick the type of workspace that works best for your team and your clients. For example, you can create a client questionnaire, you can ask people to submit ideas or documents with a clear due date, and you can lead a meeting on a digital whiteboard. Nova lets you choose your workspace and privacy settings, collaborate smart, and think efficiently.

We offer infinite digital whiteboards. These whiteboards include features such as sticky notes, timers, vote counters, card decks, and call rooms that can be used to facilitate any workshop or meeting.

Using our time tracking features makes managing your clients and team easy.

Track engagement as everyone moves forward in every phase and use this data to optimize your processes and keep your team and clients engaged. 

Simple virtual and interactive agenda with all the work sessions and whiteboards your clients will need to access – organized by the due date.

Create automatic post-meetings and project reports.

Organize your tools and templates in one place while including the steps and best practices to guide you and your team – and avoid unnecessary training and emails.

Nova reduces the mental anxiety that uncertainty and unclear processes create on teams. Cross-functional and remote teams can use Nova to make decisions, collaborate with the team while having the certainty of how things should be done.

Track progress as everyone moves forward in every phase.

New employees can learn and instantly follow processes and methodologies as they start working. They are guided during the whole process – reducing the amount of time a manager needs to spend explaining processes, requirements and the organization of files.