If you are a busy Business Consultant working on projects with lots of interviews, you're probably tired of typing-up notes to share across your team. In my time with IBM, we found this one of the low points of an engagement. The interviews were fun and the subsequent analysis was intellectually challenging, but the note taking ... yuk!
Have you thought about using a digital recorder? You could record the whole meeting - if the client agrees - or speak your notes from hand-written notes during the meeting. Spending 10-15 minutes recording in the car after a meeting could save an hour or so of typing that evening. Then off to the next meeting.
At the end of the day, simply email your voice file to a Virtual Assistant and relax. With the right VA transcription service, your notes could be available first thing the next morning. And, if your VA has access to your online project workspace such as Microsoft Groove or a WebOffice, you wouldn't even have to file the document - she would IM the team that its in the space.
If you'd like to find out more about digital dictation, I've written a short article about Digital Dictation and the service/equipment options, which should help you to get started.
This approach works well for web and other research too. How many times have you had to do research for a project, taking hand-written notes, typing these up later or perhaps typing as you go - painful isn't it? Try dictating your notes. It's a lot quicker and easier to get the typed noted to the team too.
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