Productive Virtual Team Environments
You have established a global operation. Your teams exist in many countries and work across many time zones. You are using outsourcing, offshoring, near-shoring and collaborative partnering.
You are Going Virtual!
Ensure that you have the right mix of technologies to support your people.
Too many organisations waste their potential by failing to provide the tools that their Virtual Teams need.
Potential cost savings from offshored activities turn into expensive failures through lack of strategic communications planning.
Ensure that your company is fundamentally ready at three levels: Organisation, Management and Team.
Some questions:
Organisation
- Is there a commonly shared understanding of the strategic goals for going virtual?
- Have the necessary medium-term investments in training, travel and infrastructure been evaluated against potential efficiency savings?
- Does the current IT and communications infrastructure match the new needs?
- Is there alignment between collaborative tools and business processes?
- Does the core culture support and reinfoce collaboration?
Management
- Can you let go of traditional "command and control" styles of management?
- Are performance expectations clearly understood?
- Have you established measures and rewards for effective remote collaboration
- Have you selected the right people for virtual working (it does not suit everyone!)?
Team
- Have team members got the right combination of personal and technical competencies for remote collaboration?
- Are appropriate tools in place to support building relationships and trust; sharing documents and building knowledge; and progress management?
EuroMondiale consultants have extensive experience assisting organisations maximise their gains from virtual working.
A powerful combination of technical and management consultants supports your:
Planning
Implementation
Roll-out
Training
Have the right tools for:
- Audio and Video Conferencing
- Audio and video personal communication
- Telepresence
- Document collaboration including SharePoint
- Web conferencing
- Remote training
- Desktop collaboration
This area is probably the fastest developing field of communications technology. Make the right choices to enable your people to work as efficiently as possible in the global collaboration workspace. (Make the wrong choices and you will be tied into major problems for years.)