التكنولوجيا وأخبارها بوابة الإمارات لتكنولوجيا المعلومات والإتصالات
Leverage Collaboration Solutions to Ensure Productivity and Mitigate Business Disruptions
With the rapid adoption of enterprise-grade digital meeting and workstream collaboration
solutions in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Gartner, Inc. has identified three steps
for IT leaders to improve current operations. Business leaders looking to support a newly
remote workforce are relying on collaboration tools to ensure productivity and mitigate business disruptions.
“The rise in virtual meetings since the COVID-19 pandemic began is putting pressure on
enterprise leaders to ensure employees have the right technological capabilities to
maintain consistent, high-quality connections with colleagues, customers and partners
while working remotely,” said Mike Fasciani, senior research director at Gartner.
As employees become more dependent on these virtual meeting and collaboration tools, IT
leaders should follow these three steps to provide an improved and secure user experience.
Enable reliable and consistent virtual meeting experiences
Most enterprise leaders whose employees have been instructed to work from home due to COVID-19 have already procured and deployed an enterprise-grade video meeting and workstream collaboration solution. Once these solutions are deployed, sufficient bandwidth and network reliability are critical for enabling productivity and a consistent user experience. High-quality group video calls need an internet service that can deliver download and upload speeds of at least 1.5 Mbps.
While many locations today have enough broadband internet bandwidth to accommodate video meetings, some do not. Employees who reside in these internet dead spots, which can include highly rural areas, can leverage workstream collaboration messaging capabilities to work with colleagues asynchronously or join meetings using the dial-in audio options to their telephony device. Remote workers can also use 4G-enabled smartphones, rather than PCs, to connect to online meetings.
“Many video meetings and workstream collaboration applications were built with a ‘mobile first’ design intent,” said Mr. Fasciani. “Often, these applications work as well on mobile as on a desktop or web-client.”
Make the meeting secure
Security concerns are paramount for business leaders looking to enable productive online
meetings. “End user organizations can contribute to more secure meeting experiences by
being thoughtful around IT administrator settings, meeting host controls and end user
behavior,” said Mr. Fasciani. “Simple steps, like using a separate host passcode,
randomizing meeting IDs and requiring that participants register for the meeting service
before joining the call, can go a long way in ensuring online meetings remain private.”
Reshape meeting culture to promote productivity
“Meeting overload, which is already an issue in many organizations, may be exacerbated in
this current work from home environment,” said Mr. Fasciani. “Managers should poll their
team to determine the degree of meeting overload that they’re experiencing, and then
experiment with one or two interventions focused on type, quality, formality or cadence to improve meeting experiences.”
Gartner clients can read more in the report “Adoption of Meeting and Workstream
Collaboration Solutions Spikes in Response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic.”
Learn more about how to lead organizations through the disruption of coronavirus in the
Gartner coronavirus resource center, a collection of complimentary Gartner research and
webinars to help organizations respond, manage and prepare for the rapid spread and
global impact of COVID-19.
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