The act required is then documented as an action item and is typically assigned to someone, usually a member of the group.
Action items are usually documented in the meeting minutes and are recorded in the task list of the group.
Follow up in a consistent and timely manner with the responsible individual(s) to track their progress and drive the action item to resolution.
[2] Recent research at the Computational Semantics Lab at Stanford University seeks to automatically identify action items and extract their properties (the what, who, and when of the action item) using automatic speech recognition transcripts from spontaneous, multi-party conversations during meetings.
[3] The concept was parodied in 2000 by Neil McAllister in a widely circulated "superhero" comic strip.