UNISON LLC

Companies all over the globe spend billions of dollars every year investing in technology, infrastructure and networks that allow their people to effectively communicate and collaborate on mission critical business. The result has been increased productivity, acceleration of business development and growth. These same global businesses collectively spend billions of dollars on corporate and protocol meetings every year, yet an estimated 98 percent of them leave their work tools in the office when bringing their best and brightest together. UNISON™, a new process and knowledge management technology, is about to change the meetings paradigm.

Under development enhancement for three years, UNISON links everyone in a meeting room via a local area network (LAN) using proprietary UNISON software, a CPU, LCD screens and keyboard at each table. UNISON increases audience participation and provides a two-way conduit for collecting information and sharing knowledge instantaneously. It is a collaborative, interactive tool that promotes action and helps users achieve desired outcomes.

UNISON is not a new technology in beta testing. UNISON has been used successfully by large global financial services, consulting and pharmaceutical companies, who have now made UNISON an integral part of their meeting strategies in more than 20 meetings. UNISON version 4.0 has expanded functionality and is now available for use in meetings worldwide.

UNISON was born out of a client necessity to get more mission critical thinking and outcomes from its senior level people attending global meetings. Moreover, this had to be accelerated in order to meet a business requirement from one of this client's customers so it could retain its global accounting business.

UNISON is offered exclusively through UNISON LLC with offices in New York and London, giving it the ability to provide UNISON to meetings around the globe. The functionality, usefulness and successful outcomes of using UNISON can be attributed in part to the fact that it was developed specifically for the meetings environment by experienced professionals who have been producing and staging large mission-critical corporate meetings for over 15 years.

UNISON has defined a new standard for collaborative meetings for companies that have used the system. Its results are both quantitative and qualitative. UNISON not only adds value and ROI to meetings, it ensures that real work gets done in real time and that all intellectual property (data and thinking) is captured and shared. It empowers participants with the same opportunity to participate and contribute regardless of their culture, customs, communication style or personality. UNISON is a meeting tool that provides a conduit for two-way dialogue, knowledge sharing and data capture.

Larry Cerri, president and founder of LCI Communications, Ltd., and UNISON LLC, is the chief architect behind UNISON. He utilized internal and external staff resources for coding and programming UNISON. He consulted with interactive software guru and psychologist Kimbal L. Wheatley, Ph.D., co-founder of Option Technologies Interactive, the world's largest provider of interactive audience participation technology and services, to help architect the interactive and human dynamic elements of UNISON. Larry also consulted with Mary Boone, an internationally recognized author, speaker, consultant and executive coach. Mary is considered a leading authority on cutting edge approaches to organizational communication, interactive meetings and strategic applications of communication technologies.

UNISON features can be easily customized with content and data provided by the client. These various functions include:

U•Ask, a Q&A function that allows audience and speaker to communicate even during the course of a presentation
U-Learn, a process the tests and certifies an u nlimited number of partipants in real time.
U•Think, a way for the audience to come to a consensus, or Brainstorm answers to specific questions posed from the podium
U•Talk, allows for the audience to communicate with each other through open discussion and feedback
U•Select, a method through which the audience can rank issues and concerns to find out what’s most important to them
U•Compete, a function that allows the audience to score points based on the value of their responses
U•Tell Us, a method of surveying the audience for feedback, before, during and after the event, allowing presenters to shape the meeting to the audience's needs and harvest their critical responses afterward.

All of these functions deliver instantaneous feedback from each table that can be shared throughout the room simultaneously, or designated for specific recipients. UNISON provides all hardware and software equipment, which includes a CPU, LCD screens and keyboard at each table, presenter teleprompters and/or screens and large screens placed around the room with A/V support.

Visit our Features page to learn more about the U-Functions of UNISON.

UNISON is offered exclusively through UNISON LLC. The company is exploring "re-seller" and "licensing" options to offer the patented UNISON process and technology to other meetings companies on a case-by-case basis.

For more information about UNISON contact:

UNISON LLC
171 Main Street
Nyack, NY 10960
tel. 212-937-1012 or 1-877-937-3338
sales@unison-meetings.com

LCI Communications Europe, Limited
55 Bendon Valle
London SW18 4LZ
tel. 020 8877 7155
info@unison-meetings.com

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