Travel costs are constantly on the rise and more and more we are under pressure to travel less if it can be helped. Of course face-to-face meetings are valuable but often it can be just as effective to share and discuss documents and reach consensus via distance collaboration sessions.
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Businesses that can reduce the need for travel can not only ease budget pressures, they can increase productivity. When team members reduce their time in transit from one location to another, they can spend more time performing their jobs and adding value to their companies.
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Bringing Technology Together
As communication technology has progressed from telephone to video to Internet, each innovation has added a new aspect of richness to the transmission – first voice, then images, then data. Each has unique characteristics that are useful for various collaborative scenarios, but they all provide powerful means for people to stay connected and work together. When you add the ability of interactive whiteboards to tie them all together, and enrich the experience by enabling people to interact with digital content during the work session, you give teams the means to overcome barriers of language and distance to truly collaborate.
When you ask people how they brainstorm many will say “get people around a whiteboard and start sketching out ideas.” An interactive whiteboard takes this concept further.
Interactive Collaboration
It’s a large, touch-enabled surface connected to a computer to show the computer desktop and allow users to open software applications and other files like drawings, plans, schedules or spreadsheets. You can write in digital ink, so everyone in the meeting can sketch out ideas, make and save notes, or annotate over applications and save those notes as part of the original files. And by sharing screens, participants in remote locations can see and contribute to the work in real time. Any notes, diagrams or files created or updated can be instantly distributed.
Interactive whiteboards can help businesses enhance productivity, control travel costs and reduce delays. They can augment or provide an alternative to other collaboration technologies like telephone, video and web conferencing and provide a way for teams to work together more effectively. And because they enable collaboration in real time with participants in virtually any location, they can help reduce travel costs and streamline processes.
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