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10 Best Practices Incorporating for Making Video video collaboration Part of Your as a standard business practice Collaboration Strategycan result in tighter employee and business partner relationships, In the business world, the human factor must never be over-looked. A company that has a great product may be lacking in increased sales due to poor sales support or customer service. Or perhaps productivity, faster an internal project shoots way off track as team members decision-making in different locations struggle to make themselves and their and many more requirements understood. Conference calling and web confer-encing have become standard practices but are too limiting for lucrative bene?ts. companies looking to engender more highly collaborative and productive work environments. So often, attaching a face to a name and, even more signi?cantly, being able to read someone's facial expressions and body language can make the critical difference in the success or failure of a business communication.
In this day and age, with 24x7 web-based, global business operations commonplace and mobility a growing workplace trend, companies are seeking the best way to enable clear and effective communications among employees, business partners and customers. Video conferencing offers the next logical, often essential, step in evolving a communications strategy for optimizing collaboration. >10 Best Practices 2for making video part of your collaboration strategy
Additionally, measurable increases in quality at lower band- CHANGING THE BUSINESS widths are attainable. For example, DVD quality is achievable Applications of video communications are endless, and at just 384 Kbps. So, for even for rates of less than 1 Mbps companies that embrace video as part of their communications over the public Internet, phenomenal video quality is now a strategies stand to gain a wide range of bene?ts. As they reality. Most businesses are capable of allocating this amount collaborate across town, the continent or the globe, the poten- of bandwidth for video communications, especially when the tial bene?ts include improved competitive positioning; faster, cost-to-return component is so favorable. In some cases, it is enhanced decision-making; a reduction in repeat meetings desirable to use a quality-of-service (QoS) network, but it's not and misinterpretations of business intentions; and decreased always imperative.travel and other expenses. 1 0 BEST PRACTICES With increasing business pressures and bene?ts such as these in the of?ng, corporate management increasingly identi?es FOR VIDEO COLLABORATIONvideo conferencing as a cost-effective and useful-even As Dreasler points out, video conferencing has become easy crucial -tool. Such has been the case at Quincy Newspapers, to use and offers such high quality that having a meeting via Inc., a news operation in Quincy, Ill., that runs 14 TV stations video can be more effective than connecting in person. But and two newspapers. Since the company began using video that's not to say that a company should launch into a video conferencing two and a half years ago, it has found it to be "an conferencing program without careful examination of how the amazing tool that's revolutionized not only what we do but technology best ?ts into its environment. also how we do it," says Brady Dreasler, director of broadcast engineering at Quincy Newspapers. Here are 10 tips on how to make video an essential part of a corporate communications and collaboration strategy:At the company, video conferencing sessions are so quick and easy to launch that they've become part and parcel of daily work 1. Take stock of your company's collaborative environment, life for managers, who routinely conduct department meetings and explore how video might enhance the experience. and remotely manage staffs and oversee projects, Dreasler says. Audio calls, instant messaging and e-mail are all examples of useful corporate communications tools that help With video conferencing at its disposal, Quincy Newspapers engender collaboration. But they can all be improved upon has even been able to do a better job, far more cost-effectively, with the face-to-face experience video conferencing enables. than it did when executives relied on a corporate plane, now retired, to ?y between locations, Dreasler says. Case in point: "Body language really speaks volumes. When you're trying When the ... [download for more]
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