My company has a process where it puts every stakeholder on a particular topic off-site for a day. (often in an hotel room actually). This is to accelerate the decision process, with a clear deliverable.<p>Even if it works, I find that awkward : it acknowledges that you can not get the job done at work, because of the endless stream of meetings and interruptions.<p>It really begs the question if the way we traditionally work with everyone in the same office is really that efficient. But I am sure remote workers and distributed work environment have their own share of issues.