Tealbox combines the suggestion box with kickstarter, so you can crowdsource improvement initiatives then focus on the things your people back. You can use it like a remote, scalable workshop, to boost the energy behind a topic you're trying to push forward.
Hey folks!
Quick context for how our SaaS start-up of 4ish people arrived here:
Playing online poker was my job for 9 years and another of our founders was a poker coach, focused on game theory.
Poker's a job where you have a ton of autonomy and freedom. And it’s actually a very collaborative little bubble. I embarked on all sorts of ventures with people from all over the world, usually without any formal contracts or even knowing people's full names.
At some point, we started poking our heads out of that bubble, to see if we might start doing something that actually had a positive impact on the world. But the prospects of commuting, working 9-5, having bosses and wading through bureaucracy were reaaaaaaally painful ones.
That (along with some of us studying neo-cybernetics) turned us onto the self-organisation space and books like Reinventing Organisations. They described a different type of organising, which gave us the answer to how we could keep working like we did in poker, while doing something more worthwhile for the world.
So, since then, we’ve been (to use a poker phrase) donking around trying to work out how the hell to build software which can help make these types of organisations a reality!
TealBox was the result of a co-creation with Futurice, a self-organising IT consultancy from the Nordics. And this is its first public release.
It’s not going to turn organisations into a self-organising utopia. But we’re hoping it can help organisations adapt and experiment more from the bottom-up. Particularly in these crazy times of everyone working remotely.
Click around the live demo and let us know what you think :)
Cheers,
Jack
Hey @sjballiano , thanks! The UI has been on a radical journey of simplification, from the spaceship controller we had last year :)
Target group is hard to nail down now the whole world is working remotely all of a sudden! But we think people leaders in 50-1k person orgs, who are on a push to better engage their people and become more self-organised.
We know there's a lot of organisations trying to experiment and adapt more from the bottom-up. But once you pass 50 or so people, it can become really hard to engage people in the cross organisation goals. And, if there's not much energy behind plans to improve, we often see these 'zombie initiatives' that get started but never finished.
So we want to help people leaders in those orgs engage people in the topics they're trying to drive, then get them to self-organise into actions they wouldn't otherwise take.
Indeed a very interesting product that will be good to follow for first movers. How is it different when comparing to some of the other idea type management tools currently out there, like Spigit?
Thanks @soren_elbek !
So, it all comes down to engagement really. Trying to crowdsource ideas is no good if too few people participate and they're not really engaged in the goals trying to be achieved. And, as I said above, if there's not much energy behind what goes forward, we see too many 'zombie initiatives' that get started but never finished.
As far as we've found, most idea management tools struggle for engagement and energy. Our belief is that they don't make it feel easy or worthwhile enough to participate.
Regarding ease, you can hopefully see we've tried to make the tool fun and game-like. Then we have this kickstarter-like backing action, which gives people a really easy way to get involved in an impactful way. A few clicks and they've actually participated in a collective decision.
In terms of making it worthwhile, we think it's all about giving the users real power to make an impact in their organisation quickly. The managers can decide on the topic to drive forwards and the time budget, but then there's no step where things get thrown back to them to make the 'real decision'. Within a short space of time, the 'crowd' actually decide what gets implemented and by who, within that topic/budget. So there's minimal blockers to just getting stuff done.
Hope that answers the question and please have a click around for yourself in the live demo space to see, if you haven't already :)
Love the idea! UI is great. Left a few comments here too about some small things related to your landing page that might be helfpul - https://app.usebubbles.com/24e34... -- best of luck of with this! :)
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