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Business Term

議事録

Meeting Minutes / ミーティング・ムントス

Minutes is a decision and commitment ledger used for preserving decision memory and follow-through after meetings.

Use when
Minutes changes decisions by making the owner, boundary, required evidence, and review trigger explicit before work proceeds.
Watch out
Minutes will not speed execution when ownership remains ambiguous.
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What it means

Minutes is not a dictionary label; it is a record of decisions, reasons, owners, commitments, and open issues that lets people act after a meeting without replaying it. In practice it is used for preserving decision memory and follow-through after meetings by making owners, boundaries, evidence, and review triggers explicit.

How to design it

Separate decisions from discussion notes. Attach each commitment to an owner and due date. Record the reason for major tradeoffs, not only the conclusion. List open questions so they do not masquerade as decisions.

  • Separate decisions from discussion notes.
  • Attach each commitment to an owner and due date.
  • Record the reason for major tradeoffs, not only the conclusion.
  • List open questions so they do not masquerade as decisions.
How to run it

The owner reviews Minutes weekly or at milestone changes for status, open issues, and overdue commitments. Changes to Minutes are approved only after the affected owner, scope, customer or internal outcome are named. The review checks whether Minutes improves decisions and execution, not whether the document merely exists.

  • The owner reviews Minutes weekly or at milestone changes for status, open issues, and overdue commitments.
  • Changes to Minutes are approved only after the affected owner, scope, customer or internal outcome are named.
  • The review checks whether Minutes improves decisions and execution, not whether the document merely exists.
When it helps

Minutes changes decisions by making the owner, boundary, required evidence, and review trigger explicit before work proceeds. Minutes helps teams decide whether to start, stop, resize, or resequence work using evidence rather than meeting momentum. Minutes reduces rework because assumptions, unresolved questions, and follow-up responsibilities are visible enough to challenge.

  • Minutes changes decisions by making the owner, boundary, required evidence, and review trigger explicit before work proceeds.
  • Minutes helps teams decide whether to start, stop, resize, or resequence work using evidence rather than meeting momentum.
  • Minutes reduces rework because assumptions, unresolved questions, and follow-up responsibilities are visible enough to challenge.
When not to use it

the meeting has no decision or commitment to preserve a transcript would create more noise than accountability sensitive details should be stored in a narrower system

  • the meeting has no decision or commitment to preserve
  • a transcript would create more noise than accountability
  • sensitive details should be stored in a narrower system
How to use it
  • Define the decision question, accountable owner, and time horizon before using Minutes as an operating artifact.
  • Separate evidence from opinion so Minutes supports judgment instead of decorating a preferred answer.
  • Record what was accepted, what was deferred, and what signal would cause a future change in Minutes.
  • Use Minutes to choose a management action, not merely to produce a tidy document or status label.
  • Revise or retire Minutes when the boundary, owner, evidence, or operating context changes materially.
Decision cautions

Minutes will not speed execution when ownership remains ambiguous. Minutes becomes storage instead of a decision aid when it is too long to use. Minutes needs change history or teams cannot reconstruct why the decision moved.

  • Minutes will not speed execution when ownership remains ambiguous.
  • Minutes becomes storage instead of a decision aid when it is too long to use.
  • Minutes needs change history or teams cannot reconstruct why the decision moved.
Example

A team uses Minutes after noticing that discussion keeps producing activity without a clear management decision. For Minutes, the team defines the intended outcome, names one accountable owner, and lists the evidence that would change the decision. During the Minutes review, the team compares current evidence with the recorded boundary, adjusts the scope, and assigns follow-through work. The Minutes record now helps people see why the action was chosen, what risk was accepted, and when the decision should be revisited.

Compare with

Separate nearby terms by the decision each one supports. Agenda | Plans the meeting | Minutes preserve what changed because of it Next action | Defines follow-through | Minutes explain where that action came from Decision rights matrix | Defines who can decide | Minutes record who actually decided

MetricDifferenceWhy read together
AgendaPlans the meetingMinutes preserve what changed because of it
Next actionDefines follow-throughMinutes explain where that action came from
Decision rights matrixDefines who can decideMinutes record who actually decided
Common mistakes
  • Minutes is not valuable because the label exists; it is valuable only when it changes a decision or execution behavior.
  • More detail is not automatically better for Minutes; the useful level is the one that clarifies ownership and review.
  • Minutes is not a one-time workshop output because the artifact must stay current while the decision remains live.
Frequently asked questions
Should minutes include everything said?

No. Capture decisions, reasons, commitments, risks, and unresolved questions.

When should they be sent?

Send them while memory is fresh, ideally the same day for operating meetings.

Who owns corrections?

The meeting owner should accept corrections and keep one current record.

Sources
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Principles of Management (OpenStax)tier_sOpen
Wikipedia reference: Project ManagementsupplementalOpen