More than 70% of the corporate boards that adopt OnBoard, a digital governance software platform, each month come from what the company’s chief executive officer, Paroon Chadha, calls the “P world”: paper and pen.
While companies transition various elements of their work to the digital realm, their boards of directors, more often than not, still live in the analog universe. Boards meet in person. Minutes are taken by hand. Two-hundred-page board books are printed, assembled, and shipped via FedEx to board members. Only during the pandemic did board work shift to Zoom and other digital platforms, but since life has evolved to its new normal, Chadha says, many boards are going back to the 2019 routine of shuffling papers.
