HOW rofori WORKS.

HOW rofori WORKS

What is rofori?

Rofori is a cloud service communication platform that enables teams to become more effective and accomplish their objectives. Accurate and timely situational awareness along with focused communications, are required for any group to be able to be effective.

With rofori, a team leader creates a private stream (the stream "owner”) in which invited team members post brief and frequent activity status messages, or reply to other messages, pertaining to the stream's defined purpose. Rofori messages are different from email and other micro-blog tools in that they contain categorization data which rofori uses to automatically create coherent structure and relationships among messages, enabling the derivation of knowledge and activity status.

Why is rofori unique?

Rofori is unique because it is the only communications platform that provides accurate and timely situational awareness visually. Rofori displays an icon for each message enabling stream members to determine the importance and kind of activity that is occurring without having to read each message.

The visual status is not limited to a few system specific values. The message types and category data may be configured by the stream owner at any time to best identify the important activity, status, events, or milestones that are important in managing progress towards the accomplishment of your objective.

By creating relevant category data values and relationship rules, such as issue/resolution, question/answer, task assignment/completion, and topical discussions, automatic knowledge creation and instant status reporting can be obtained.

Rofori is for Team Centric Communication:

• Focus on Team Accomplishment
• Micro-blog relevant information pertaining to task assignment, task completion, activity status,
  issues and their resolution, questions and answers, milestones, deliverables, etc.
• Private, secure communications
• All members understand the activity status of others (situational awareness)
• Create and share knowledge
  
  

Rofori design priorities include:

• Keep it simple to use
• Ensure mobility
• Ensure security and privacy
  
  

Rofori Feature	How	Benefit
• Focus	Messages are isolated into Activity focused communication streams	Information provided is always activity specific All members see all activity, status, milestone, and event information
	No Advertisements!	Nothing to distract team members from their activity
• Privacy & Security	Stream Owner invites and authorizes new members to participate in the stream.	Stream Owner controls who can access the information in the stream
• Security	Authentication	All Stream members are authenticated, and stream data is private and secure
	No Advertisements!	Malware can't slip in, and, you can't accidently be lured to a bad web site Your communications and data are not examined for someone else's benefit
• Categorization	Stream Owner sets category values for the stream's intended use	Message types, dates, and other values enable Status-at-a-Glance and Status Reporting, and, knowledge creation
• User Experience	Message stream layout	Easy intuitive streamlined information presentation
• Effective	Urgent Message Alert	Notification to your smartphone of urgent messages posted to your streams
	The entire team is in sync	Effective communications - the team communicates in real time Everyone who needs to know has access to current status and document information
• File Storage	Multiple Files and Links may be attached to messages	Find the message and you have the associated files The team always has access to the latest file version
• Intelligent Search	Intelligent search engine that tailor's itself to the user configured stream categories.	Find and extract the knowledge that rofori has recorded for you. Mix and match any combination of category field values with message words or phrases to refine your results to find and focus on what you are looking for

Measurable benefits

Within two weeks of teams using rofori, internal "status meetings” were eliminated:

• Project Team and
• Executive Management

Easy Status Reporting
Response to Issues and Questions are measurable
Quantifiable member engagement/activity (quantity, type, and quality)
Quantifiable member deliveries
Process metrics
How is your team working?
How often do you hear or say something similar to:

• We all need to be on the same page…
• If I had known sooner I could have…
• I spend more time giving status updates to Management than …
• We need to communicate better,
• I know we answered that question before…
• I can't find 'it' for the auditor.
• How did we
• Where's that email chain...?
• Who has the latest version of the file?
• I haven't gotten any status updates from my team members yet.
• What are each of your members working on?

Rofori eliminates all of these common symptoms of underperforming teams. Teams that use rofori have constant effective communications that provides accurate and timely situational awareness to all team members. Team activity, status, milestone, and event communications is categorized and consolidated into a common location that is protected from noise, outside activity, and eliminates team member isolation through the effective sharing of activity and status information.

If it is important that your team be effective, then rofori can help you manage your communications workflow to achieve your objectives.