Once a month, employees and managers alike look forward to the town hall where we can all come together to learn about how we are performing as one. It's a great way to evaluate our collective performance and celebrate our wins while also keeping lines of communication between departments and teams open.

The town hall also gives C-Level leadership an opportunity to share relevant topics to the whole company, including business trajectory, company initiatives, and personnel changes.

What is a town hall meeting in a company?

A town hall meeting is an organizational business meeting where an executive report is shared and employees have the opportunity to ask questions and engage with executives. It is sometimes referred to as an all-hands meeting in some organizations.

The meetings are usually held in person in a large conference room, however, since the pandemic, virtual town hall meetings have also become common. At FireStart, we oscillate between in-person, remote, and hybrid town hall meetings depending on the Covid-19 restrictions, so every employee can follow in real-time.

The meeting is separated into two parts. The first part is a presentation about the current happenings of the business and important milestones passed by different departments. A representative from each department presents the achievement of the teams, which also allows management insight into how each team is performing. The second half of the meeting is a question and answer style format where everyone in the company can ask questions and receive guidance from management.

What is the purpose of a town hall meeting?

Employees, more often than not, relish in the opportunity to directly engage with and communicate their ideas to upper-level management. A town hall meeting format is the perfect way to provide everyone with an opportunity to be heard, to share their successes, and celebrate the achievements of the team together.

The most important factor in a town hall meeting is joint participation. It's not a lecture, it's a forum!

You should start hosting town halls if you want to:

The town hall meeting format is quite simple; the idea is to have several short presentations that cover different aspects of the company under an overarching theme.

Setting up and preparing to present a town hall meeting can feel overwhelming. These 4 steps below shed some light on how to best implement your next town hall meeting.

Setting an agenda for your upcoming town hall meeting is important because it ensures that the presentation is succinct, relevant, and involves everyone -- without running overtime.

The town hall agenda format can be broken down into three main areas:

After the town hall, it's really important that upper management follows up on the actionable points of the town hall. This develops and builds trust within the organization. When run properly, town halls can increase employee engagement, retention, and improve the company's bottom line.

Town halls empower us to build a better business 

At FireStart, continuous improvement is a top priority for us. It's why we decided to implement town halls in the first place! Feedback is so important to us because it allows everyone to grow and evolve, which helps us as a business to expand and improve too.

 of business values, our mission statement is, "to empower people and technology to perform as one so you can make a difference" and next to that some of our values are, transparency, trust, and joy.

This is intertwined with how we run our business, and also how we design our product. 

 is about making a difference in the lives of all employees and managers, so we can help them create more transparency, 

, and ultimately, find more joy. A huge part of this product discovery is feedback. When there's no feedback, there's no room for innovation.

The town hall meetings are FireStart mirror how we design our product and how we approach our daily work. We're always able to identify areas of improvement for each department so everyone in the organization can continue to grow.

. With remote working and home office days now the norm, it's more important than ever to meet up and discuss our progress in town hall meetings.

Even with remote work, we're still able to build a strong community, foster team spirit, and find joy in our daily work.

Holding regular town hall meetings can boost employee spirit and also improves executive visibility.

A town hall meeting is an organizational business meeting where executives have the opportunity to directly interact with employees. Holding a town hall meeting regularly boosts team spirit, encourages collaboration, and helps leadership stay in the loop.

At FireStart, we implemented a communal "town hall" meeting to engage our FireStarters. Having regular town halls is one way that we encourage open communication and foster a truly flat workplace.

How Your Company Can Benefit From Town Hall Meetings

Process orchestration is a not-so-new term that has become important in the business sphere. Simply put, process orchestration is when a process is developed, monitored, executed and managed in one platform. The result is 

that can help a business grow and scale while improving productivity and reducing overall costs.

Everest assessed the process orchestration market of software providers and compared the benefits of each provider. The assessment included the providers that have been adopted by enterprises, the capabilities and solutions of the platforms, and the general technology provider landscape.

Everest was particularly focused on business orchestration because it can help companies solve issues they face as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Companies around the world are looking for ways to digitally transform

, and process orchestration can be the fast lane to success.

Everest reports process orchestration as key 2022 trend

an emerging key factor in a company’s digital transformation

. To remain competitive, companies need to digitally transform 

that deliver more value to customers and improve their bottom line.

Everest identified that process orchestration can help businesses lower their costs, raise efficiency, provide better customer experience, and increase compliance, just to name a few. The reason is that process orchestration tools allow businesses to 

 across departments. Process orchestration also helps manage handoffs between humans and digital workforces, 

making hybrid and remote working seamless.

What companies are looking for post-pandemic

Looking forward into 2022, Everest made several predictions based on what companies need in a post-pandemic world. They found that the main barrier to change is overcoming the traditional siloed working approach in favor of a digitally collaborative one. Businesses are also looking to 

better manage their human and digital workforce

Process orchestration can solve the emerging needs of businesses. An orchestration platform 

can provide companies with a solution to scale

, while taking little deployment time and being accessible enough for anyone to use with 

 Even companies with smaller budgets will be able to benefit from the process orchestration revolution.

 was able to deeply understand their own operational structure by implementing FireStart. With process orchestration, they were able to

 identify opportunities to streamline processes

, leading to 75% more resilience during the pandemic.

FireStart ticks boxes for small and medium businesses

In the report, Everest listed FireStart as a stand-out player in the process orchestration field that can empower companies to digitally transform. For 

, FireStart was comparable with industry players like Nintex and Kissflow, providing customers with automation solutions that are simple to use and implement.

FireStart differentiated itself in the report by showing strength in process design and execution, 

, and process implementation and support. For the end-user, FireStart offers a streamlined, optimized, and simplified approach to process creation and management. 

Low and no code options empower small to medium businesses (SMBs)

 who do not necessarily have access to software developers. FireStart also stood out in the low to medium complexity workflow category.

Everest particularly noted the wide variety of offerings that FireStart provides. From the 

 to the new cloud offering, FireStart consistently ticks the boxes when it comes to consumer needs. Both SMBs and 

 can benefit from the wide variety of user-friendly features such as drag-and-drop, the ability to track changes made by users, and visual process map creation. These features are crucial in making digital transformation more simplified. Companies can 

automate and orchestrate all in one platform

, empowering users to connect all parts of their tech ecosystem.

FireStart scored especially well in the hybrid working category, something that has become largely important in the wake of the pandemic. The ability to 

, send reminders and notifications, start and 

, and optimize workloads across all digital users, have become essentials in the age of remote working.

As we already mentioned above, FireStart will launch 

soon. Due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, companies have been steadily adopting cloud-based technologies to assist with remote working. Many businesses now are either entirely cloud-based or working on a hybrid model.

Going into 2022, even enterprise companies are wanting to integrate cloud hosting platforms. Among providers, 80% of them provide premises solutions while over 90% now offer cloud. Compared to customers, 61% of customers prefer cloud solutions while 39% opt for on-prem. FireStart differentiates itself by providing a hybrid solution that includes both cloud and on-prem, which few software providers offer.

, customers will be preferring cloud solutions as the world transitions from siloed, office working to collaborative, hybrid working.

Are you ready to orchestrate your processes?

If you’re considering a digital transformation, a process orchestration platform can provide your business with the governance and clarity it needs. 

process orchestration empowers businesses to develop their processes 

beyond what was previously thought possible by integrating a wide variety of applications and databases.

Start orchestrating your workflows with FireStart

Discover the latest trends for 2022 to see how process orchestration can help your company.

Everest Group, a global research firm, released research into the Process Orchestration market. FireStart is listed as a key player in this new, emerging market. 

Everest Group, a global research firm, released research into the Process Orchestration market. FireStart is listed as a key player in this new, emerging market. The rise of business Process Orchestration tools means companies now have the best chance of succeeding with a swift, effective digital transformation.

Everest Group Lists FireStart as Key Process Orchestration Platform

We are proud to announce that FireStart was mentioned as a 

 by one of the most prestigious analyst firms in the world, 

. The HFS Hot Vendors are an exclusive group of emerging players with a differentiated value proposition for the Digital OneOffice. As one of the leaders in iBPMS and process automation vendors, FireStart is proving that a low code, easy-to-implement platform that is able to fuse fractured processes between people, applications, and RPA robots, is the future of process management.

The Digital OneOffice is a framework for organizations that have fully embraced digital business models, ensuring that all barriers between front and back offices no longer exist. According to the HFS Hot Vendors report, Hot Vendors possess the vision and strategy to impact and disrupt the market in a unique capacity.

That’s what makes FireStart unique – the 

platform itself is built to manage complexity

 while providing a simple user experience and governance across the enterprise process landscape. As a result, people are more empowered in their roles when tech and humans can work together.

Organizations with thousands of applications and fragmented processes face an uphill battle when it comes to digital transformation and scaling. The lack of involvement, or even late involvement, of the IT department, presents unique challenges when 

businesses want to automate, manage and improve their processes digitally.

HFS Research sees FireStart as solving this problem with its model-based approach to intelligent process automation – aligning with HFS’s view of complete integrated automation. Integration is important because it assists businesses in ridding themselves of process debt, which according to 

 may have short-term benefits, but generates a negative impact long term. The HFS research supports our belief that process management must have a holistic, methodical approach to build long-term, sustainable organizations.

The collaboration between IT departments and business-focused departments is also part of our core mission. This approach to iBPMS breaks down silos within organizations to empower better communication, helping businesses to achieve their goals. Greater collaboration assists organizations to scale in a sustainable way, with FireStart supporting to easily handle complicated workflows, and the ability for customers to suggest new features on the roadmap. 

Providing an end-to-end process ecosystem has been a journey for us at FireStart. Over the past 13 years, we have worked hard to deliver a product that both simple to use and highly collaborative. The low code approach has helped us deliver this platform to hundreds of customers around the world so our clients can reach their business goals without the headache of unstructured processes.

Our goal for the future is to remain innovative and disruptive within the industry – helping our clients to reach their greatest potential and scale for success. To read more about how we’re doing this, view and 

Contact us for a free demo of the platform, customized for your organization.

Scale for Success with FireStart

FireStart has been recognized by HFS Research as a Hot Vendor in the Hot Vendors Q2 2020 report. 

HFS Research has named FireStart as a Hot Vendor in their HFS Hot Vendors Q2 2020 report. The report details how well vendors can fill the process automation gaps from end-to-end, known as the HFS OneOffice framework.

FireStart has been recognized by HFS Research, a global analyst firm, as a Hot Vendor in the HFS Hot Vendors Q2 2020 report. 

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