Increase Productivity
Accelerate decision making, build trust within and beyond the organization, and promote innovation.
As we move from transactional worlds to more collaborative working environments, we need new communication capabilities to support intelligent collaboration. Implementations of collaboration solutions can simplify communications and shorten decision cycles by bringing people and information together more efficiently.
A compounding effect accrues with improved participation across the organization, leading to increased employee and team productivity, simplified business processes, and improved workflow, which can:
- Enhance revenue opportunities and competitive advantage
- Streamline product development and bring products to market more quickly
- Shorten the sales cycle and directly benefit overall profitability
Collaboration Use Cases
Explore how collaboration implementations can help you increase productivity.
Primary Use Cases for Improving Productivity
- Enable Meetings with Remote Participants:
Speed decision making by using web conferencing, so employees, partners, and customers from multiple locations can meet any time, from anywhere.
- Incorporate Video into Meetings:
Improve communications, relationships, and productivity by enabling people to meet face-to-face over distance.
- Enable Mobile Workers and BYOD:
Give employees the flexibility to work wherever theyre most effective using personal or company-issued mobile devices as a highly secure extension of your enterprise network.
- Create Communities and Team Workspaces:
Create shared workspaces where virtual teams can interact and collaborate on interdependent tasks.
Secondary Use Cases for Improving Productivity
- Collaborate with External Organizations:
Easily share information, interact in real time, and communicate across channels beyond email and telephone.
- Extend Telephony with Video:
Help enable the benefits of face-to-face video communications directly from your phone or softphone system.
- Collaborate from Within Business Applications:
Access voice, video, IM, presence, voice mail, and conferencing directly from the business applications you use most often instead of switching platforms.
Identify Your Business Priorities
Address business priorities by improving collaboration.
Customer Satisfaction Cost Control Employee Engagement Innovation and Growth OverviewThe ROI of Video Collaboration
The Aberdeen Group shows how organizations gain business value from video deployments.
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Get specific recommendations for managers implementing collaboration in a global enterprise.
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