Your board can focus on making important decisions by coordinating meetings without paper on a secure platform. Board members appreciate having access to their meeting materials and supporting information from one location so that they can make well-informed decisions quickly and efficiently. Both Aprio and BoardPaq offer agenda-building features for efficient preparation of meeting materials, including download templates and uploading folders of numerous documents to speed up the process. Aprio also has a messageboard feature for quick communication between your board members. With real-time annotation of PDFs, working with your board on the cloud is easy and efficient.
You should ensure that your board papers are concise, clear and precise when organizing, coordinating and conducting meetings for your board that are paper-free, including leadership and committees. It is important to set a deadline for the submission of board papers to ensure that your Board can examine and approve the documents prior to the meeting.
Boardpaq, a company founded in 2012, is an online application that allows users to plan, run, and manage board meetings without paper. The company is headquartered in Saint Charles, Missouri. BoardPaq’s software for managing boards includes document discussions meeting management polls, news announcements, and polls. It also provides strengths as well as weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis tools that help to accelerate strategic planning. Its central secure document sharing data base helps improve the memory of the company and helps with electronic workflows for logging activity reports, resolutions, and board minutes. Using a mobile app members can access board materials, take notes and record meetings on the go.