This article is the first one in a series called startups’ tools. Most startups are tech oriented companies which heavily relies on computer softwares and infrastructures. However they are not always specialists for every technical aspects. Since, at Open Agora […]
4 weeks! This blog has been online for 4 weeks, and we still have not written any article about Condorcet. A great feat since this mathematician’s voting system is of major importance for Open Agora. This article will present Nicolas […]
Today, we discuss one essential element under a social psychological approach : The G R O U P Usually, before making a collective decision, a group is created, either over a long period (e.g. a sports team in a club) either ephemerally (e.g. a […]
In our previous article we presented Valve as a successful horizontal organization. We sketched what these organizations are and some elements of Valve’s way of working. Now we get to the specifics and discuss about some key elements of their […]
Valve is a very successful company: founded in 1996 by Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington, it first started by editing video games (Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and many others). In 2003 it initiated an online videogames distribution system called Steam. Today, Steam […]
What is Slack? You have heard about a flat rope to practice funambilism ? Well, not exactly ! For 3 years now, Slack has been sharply replacing email within small and middle size companies. That’s a revolutionnary instant messaging software that […]
Today, collective decision-making and consensus achieving have become a necessity, whether the decision is trivial or crucial. The fact that we are living in society forces us to make choices that must satisfy the whole group. We use a large […]
Open Agora is a startup focussed on collective decision making, and polling systems. Why are we launching a blog? There are several reasons for a company such as ours for having a blog: there are topics we care about; there […]
