Intimacy - Group Size of 10-14 This size group has been shown to be the optimal size for maximum productivity. It is large enough to provide a wide range of experience, diversity of views and meaningful discussion, yet small enough to provide ample opportunity for focused participation and feedback.

Non-competing Companies – By ensuring that no competitive situations exist with group companies, participants can freely share sensitive information without fear of compromising this information with competitors.

Mutual Confidentiality – Each member is bound to keep group proceedings fully confidential. This ensures that sensitive information can be openly shared in a proactive problem solving environment with confidence.

Group Process – Within each group there develops a sense of community, trust and process that in and of itself becomes a powerful component of each Quorim group.

Accountability – Group members hold each other accountable for commitments made within the group. This friendly peer pressure aids in creating follow through and in making commitments real.

Education – From time to time meetings will include a presentation from an industry expert on a topic of mutual interest and concern. Topics may be of a technical nature, but are more often of a business or management nature.

Friendships – Many times deep and lasting friendships are forged within the groups.

Peer Review and Mentoring – Peer review takes place in a number of ways. Through the Focused Executive exercise, through addressing critical situations and informally during breaks or even between meetings.

Focused Executive – The concept of the Focused Executive is for each participant to have the opportunity to present their company to the group as a comprehensive entity. Also known as the “hot seat”, this process forces the participant to define the company in terms of technology deployment, personnel, policies, goals, budget, strategies, philosophy, relationships with other departments, strategic relationships and partnerships and any other dimension deemed appropriate. The executive also identifies a significant area of concern and the group members provide feedback, brainstorm solutions, share experiences, identify resources and help formulate a solution and a course of action.

Problem Sollving – Group members have an opportunity to identify and present a critical situation to the group for a possible solution. Critical situations are time sensitive and of a serious nature. They can involve any aspect of business operations including technical, personnel, fiscal, operational or political.

Great Idea – In the Great Idea each executive puts a designated fee into a kitty and submits their great idea to the group. The group votes on the best idea and the winner takes the kitty. This is a fantastic way to reward thinking creatively and coming up with ideas for solving business problems, creating additional revenue opportunity or saving money.

Generalized Sharing - While it sounds trite, sharing experiences with a product, a vendor, a consultant, a partner or a company can provide huge savings in not going through a process that is potentially fraught with problems. Tapping into the collective experience of the group is a huge benefit.

As in most processes, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Inevitably there is an “ah ha” moment in each meeting where participants recognizes some breakthrough idea, concept or solution that has the potential to change their life, business or even their industry.