GroupMap Reviews

GroupMap has been very useful as we had to shift our work --designing and facilitating collaborative processes and public engagement events -- online due to Covid. It has numerous features and extensive adaptability to assist with numerous collaborative tasks.

Overall costs are reasonable, but more flexibility would help in terms of dealing with larger meetings time to time, or the temporary need for additional facilitators, which can add costs quickly.

It is a great tool particularly for brainstorming, evaluating ideas, and then moving from discussion to action. I particularly like how it can work both asynchronously and synchronously. Groups can work on maps individually between meetings, and then during meeting, interact with the maps with voting, ranking, commenting, etc. I like to use the valuable time together as efficiently as possible, and using GroupMap between meetings to collect individual perspectives allows us to use the joint time doing critical interactive tasks.

GroupMap is easy to use and invite participants (who don't need a licence to use the tool). There are many ready to use templates that all internal/external consultants like to use e.g. SWOT, PEST, Operating Model Canvas and the like. You can also create your own maps/template quite quickly with a really easy to use interface.

Nothing really. I find it easy to use and can access support easily if required.

My clients loved using it so much I decided to resell it. Give it a free trial 14 day trial at https://figura.associates/groupmap

Great when wanting to collaborate with colleagues across the world or your organisation. But also excellent for use within a face to face workshop as you can quickly move to action planning after the brainstorming and grouping are completed. This has allowed us to move on from decisions to actions on strategy planning workshops / new projects etc.

GroupMap is intuitive. It appears you don't need any special skills to use it or to facilitate even the largest group. They seem to have every template I could ever want and the ability to customize the design and functionality of each. It has all the biggies like brainstorming, SWOT analysis, SOAR Analysis, Business Model Canvas, Urgent Important MAtrix etc. plus many industry-specific templates like Agile retrospective and KWHLAQ. Groups can attach files, make comments, vote on priorities and more. The anonymity function is excellent to prevent groupthink.

Nothing at the moment. But I've only used the basic functions at the moment. Maybe I need to use it a bit more to see.

It costs nothing to trial for 14 days

Capturing, collating and sorting ideas. The structured approach to idea capture beats a heap of post it notes strewn around.

Its very user friendly! I never know what I'm doing. This is helpful

Nothing. I think it is a great prodcuct!

Do it!!!

it's great! An easy ap to talk to people.

Ease of use, Intuitive, Flexibility, Process Automation

Trying to think of something ... I can't

Initially, it might seem too simplistic - minimal features - very uncluttered screen. But then, after you've walked a group through a process, step by step, especially a virtual team of geographically dispersed participations spread across multiple time zones you will understand the magic of Groupmap.

As both a consultant and a workshop facilitator I've used Groupmap for various purposes. These range from Empathy Mapping, Lean Startup to Brainstorming and Swot Mapping. The ability to configure each individual canvas to meet the specific needs of each client or workshop - guiding the online collaborators through the collaboration process seamlessly is perhaps one of the major advantages Groupmap has over all its competitors!

GroupMap is a powerful online platform which I like to use to have people start open discussion and conversations. By putting in a bit of thought in to the templates before going in to your meeting it is made easy to capture and securely save the input of the participants.

By going through the process of grouping, voting and rating topics provided as input an interactive meeting is created, where everyone feels their input is considered and heard.

The final report you can download after finishing your template is not as intuitive and formatted as I would like it to be.

Creating alignment and buy in from the participant in the meeting by involving them all in the brainstorm and decisions process.

My favourite tools of the suite are the Agile Retrospective and Brainstorming maps. The agile retrospective tool works brilliantly in a distributive environment and is also a great learning aid for teams that have less experience. The Brainstorming map is great for the other end of the planning process when collaborating with product teams outside the engineering function.

I think the pricing model could be tweaked.

Implementing agile/scrum ceremonies in a distributed environment can be difficult, GroupMap provides all the tools required to do this.

I like that you can show who came up with each idea within the group.

Occasionally, the templates are difficult to navigate.

The main problems I use this to solve are for projects that require extensive collaboration when not all of the members are physically present.

can show votes in an anonymous way , can like or dislike ideas, can group similar ideas

the ui at first was kind of confusing, wasn't sure where to start

we use it to identify gaps in our team by voting on things and a way to voice concerns in a more anonymous way.

It's great to use I've never seen any other app like it

there are no dislikes I've never seen it before so it's new to me and I really do like it it's a great app to try and use and have

No business benefits really it's just a great app to have