Structured analyses, decisions, and follow-ups

Calc3 is a flexible platform for organizing information in document snippets and spreadsheets with sub-rows, sub-columns, and multiple sheet layers (dimensions).

However, the original need driving the development was the job of structuring decisions. So Calc3.com is primarily suitable for people who need to create structured processes around analysis, proposal development, decision making, and follow-up.

Many people and organizations make important decisions in an emerging and informal way, perhaps based on the most vocal stakeholder groups. Everywhere there is pressure towards informal and feelings-based decisions. Reasons could be lack of time, energy, focus, motivation, openness, concern for others, democracy, or rationality. There could be too much competition, self-protection, or self-interest among groups in the organization. Such cultures are so widespread that authors like Henry Mintzberg wrote about "The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact" in HBR March-April 1990, and Thomas J. Peters wrote "Leadership: Sad Facts and Silver Linings" already in 1979.

However, "Nothing could be more detrimental to organizational learning that this process of elevating individual defense tactics to an organizational routine", wrote Chris Argyris in "Good Communication That Block Learning" in HBR July-Aug. 1994. He explained: "Defensive reasoning occurs when individuals make their premises and inferences tacit, then draw conclusions that cannot be tested except by the tenets of this tacit logic."

We believe that it is the responsibility of leadership to pull analysis, decision making, and follow-ups back to more structured frameworks and processes, every day. Calc3.com is for people with the same concern.

You find tools for analysis such as Industry Analysis, SWOT, and JobsTo Be Done (JTBD) in calc3.com. Surveys collecting input from employees or customers are integrated. Premade decision templates are based on the Multi Criteria Decision Model. However, you can create your own models and calculations. Calc3.com contains document management. The core of calc3.com is a novel three dimensional spreadsheet that also can store text and documents. Users can work on the same spreadsheets simultaneously with security and access control.