Q&A

Nova is a collaboration and productivity platform that leverages intelligent technology to help teams work together while coordinating the work for you. 

Unlike other platforms, @Nova helps organize work by goals, people and deadlines and includes tools like whiteboards, tasks and documents to get things done in the same space. 

With Nova you can manage your collaborative efforts, provide a clear path to success and keep decisions organized without any additional admin burden. Let Nova manage and coordinate people, meetings and processes for you. 

Nova is a workspace for collaboration, innovation, and growth. We perform best during the thinking stage of a project. 

While project management tools help you be more effective and manage tasks, Nova helps teams think through problems, explore new solutions, gather insight, and develop new strategies amongst other things. When trying to collaborate with teams and multiple people, the thinking process becomes convoluted and less productive, Nova lets teams and groups focus their thinking through structured processes and by removing administrative barriers. We aim to maximize your human capital to nurture innovation.  

We help organizations become efficient without jeopardizing the amount of time teams spend thinking.

With Nova you can manage your collaborative efforts, provide a clear path to success and keep decisions organized. 

Sessions are meetings or structured milestones to accomplish a specific goal in a project. Team members are invited to the session to promote synchronization and cohesiveness while maintaining a fair process and transparent communication.

Using Nova, sessions are linked to an innovation tool, providing a system so the team can focus on a particular objective, optimizing their way of thinking before moving to the next step in the process.

All work sessions include a trackable step-by-step process, and all the digital resources teams and collaborators will need to reach the goal.  This process makes work more effective, and collaborative and team members own the project.

A project workflow is a sequence of work sessions, whiteboards, and tasks that create a path to success and describes how something goes from start to completion, whether that’s through a task, a video, a work session, whiteboard, or a meeting.

Project workflows can be viewed as a diagram using the board view or as an interactive agenda using the list view. 

A workflow holds key intellectual property inside each organization as it tracks and saves thought processes and decision making. Project workflows can be created and tracked inside our project board, or by using the list view.

Workflows allow any team member or stakeholder to zoom in to the micro aspects of projects, zoom out to see the big picture, and follow a simple path to success.

On a project workflow, you can do the following:

• Add work sessions and whiteboards to facilitate collaborative work and team exercises.
• Add tasks and resources the team will need to reach the project goal successfully. 
• Assign specific team members or invite external participants to the project or to individual sessions, tasks, or whiteboards. (external participants can only access sessions inside the project)
• Track session progress using the status dropdown menu on the projects page
• Track project progress in detail using the “view project report” function within the project
• Include documents and notes people will need during the process.

Using Nova, sessions are linked to an innovation tool, providing a system so the team can focus on a particular objective, optimizing their way of thinking before moving to the next step in the process.

All work sessions include a trackable step-by-step process, and all the digital resources teams and collaborators will need to reach the goal.  This process makes work more effective, and collaborative and team members own the project.

Nova is perfect for workflows and tools for business strategy, marketing, design/design thinking, product development, etc

For consultants: 

With Nova, consultants can create proprietary processes, tools, workflows, or card decks and sell them.  Clients will receive a full package with interactive processes and tools that can be automatically integrated into their Nova workspace and used by anyone in their team. Consultants can create workflows, card decks, or tools for marketing, coaching, strategy, UX, Service design, design thinking, product management, etc.  Once consultants have a process or a tool they want to sell, they can share the link with the client and help them integrate those processes long-term. Learn more about our consultant network and our space for consultants. 

Yes, we are currently training consultants who are part of our experts network. In the next few months, we are launching our online academy.

As an alternative we also have this Learn about Nova for consultants workflow (you need the pro account) or Schedule a training session with one of our representatives.

What advantages do I get from joining the network? 

We are launching a new expert network program and will also provide sales leads to consultants joining our networks. Other benefits will include:

• Be promoted in our expert webpage (coming up soon)
• Community chat on slack: Learn more about what other consultants are doing and share resources (coming soon)
• Marketing materials: We will share marketing materials you can use for your social media, blog, and PowerPoint presentations. 
• Events and Online Resources.
• Sales lead: Sometimes, users ask us directly for a consultant – we will send that lead to you based on your skillset and location. 

How can I join the network? Fill out this form. 

Do I need to create processes and tools to be able to join the network? No, we have consultants and experts from multiple disciplines. Some consultants help organizations integrate Nova during their digital transformation. We also have designers who help organizations create graphics for their meetings and their whiteboards.