subject: Enterprise Collaboration Software: Team Bonding In A Global Enterprise [print this page] Technological innovations and customer requirements have facilitated the globalization of businesses. Along with globalization came in a multicultural and multinational environment, a workforce spread across various corners of the globe and a host of customers worldwide to attend to. Though globalization reaps in large profits, companies also struggle to maintain a high level of communication with their employees worldwide and engage them to ensure higher productivity. Providing these organizations with a collaborative space, wherein the teams can pool resources and find solutions will help them achieve higher goals.
Collaboration demands that the members of a team work in coordination towards a common goal. However, in case of global organizations, team members of a project may be located across geographical boundaries. To meet such organizational requirements, enterprise collaboration software can be considered. A typical enterprise collaboration software enables communication, collaboration for solving problems, cross-location and cross-team project management, including task assignments and managing timelines. Many such platforms also have email, calendars, text chat, and internal employee-networking capabilities.
Group collaboration would not only result in a seamlessly networked organization, but would also enable organizations to see real benefits too in the form of increased productivity, increased agility, shorter response times and greater support to customers. Use of collaborative software provides the organizations with a number of benefits: For the Operational team this facilitates their collaboration in operations by creating projects, and managing workflows. The availability of project dashboards helps to pass on the necessary information to the team. In case of the sales team, such platforms enable staying in touch, even through mobile phones. Leads, market intelligence and customer feedback are sent without any delays or data leakage.
The HR team uses this team collaboration software to get a complete view of the employees skills, aspirations and the leadership potential, thereby making it easier for them to understand the organizations most valuable asset and host training sessions across geographical boundaries. With an anytime, anywhere access, this rich enterprise social software platform is offered to organizations as a SaaS solution.
