Both type of tools cover necessary but different activities.
Email and tools like Slack, Yammer, Chatter, etc. are designed to exchange information, manage tasks and organize team work. But participants’ contributions follow a timeline, which makes them inadequate to maintain complex conversations in a collaborative way and think together in an organized manner.
Delibera covers this need of thinking together, structuring key conversations and organizing contributions by their sense and quality.
Delibera achieves this through smart deliberation templates with different structures depending on the objective pursued: ask for a YES/NO, prioritize among a list of options, obtain suggestions, evaluate alternatives, allocate percentages, follow-up initiatives and commitments, optimize meetings and formalize the decisions taken…
Each type of conversation requires an adequate structure to achieve the desired results. By structuring conversations, the quality of the interactions between people improves, going from a mere and basic exchange of opinions or debate, where some win and some lose, to a real deliberation which allows us to think and move forward together. Email and similar tools are good to communicate, but not to deliberate. Both are necessary activities, but different.