Role of IT Infrastructure in Virtual Collaboration
May 27, 2009 by Raj Sheelvant
The combination of expense cuts and increased productivity is driving a push towards a growing use of remote collaboration software and equipments according to FT.com article ‘Virtual conference victory for Cisco Systems’. The article states that companies are accelerating their deployments of high-definition video conferencing gear made by the likes of Cisco and Hewlett-Packard.
Rapid acceptance of virtual collaboration will drive two important trends:
• Organizations will accelerate search for talent globally.
• Enable individuals to work remotely.
Both these trend will change the way people work for the companies. This will in turn change companies’ responsibility towards its employees. These virtual collaboration trends will encourage organization to radically change the management of Talent. The individuals will get more options in term of where, how and what they want to work on. But they will have less and less incentives to grow within the company.
Remote working although popular in technology companies is still an outlier in traditional organizations. But, with the focus on cost cutting due to this global recession, more and more organizations will make virtual conferences and collaborations mainstream. New way of communications and collaboration become necessary in this new remote work environment. The companies that are willing to invest in their IT infrastructure to enable virtual collaboration will win in this hypercompetitive global environment. The economic downturn has been a blessing in disguise and force organization in the US to be more globally competitive.
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