These are challenging times. Most likely, your organization is also facing continuous change, including the shift to a more agile, virtual organization, increasingly mobile workers and the unremitting demand to lower costs and increase productivity. Join the club...

But here's the good news: a new breed of unified communications and collaboration technologies present a real opportunity for companies to reach these objectives.

Many of our clients are moving from traditional 'command-and- control' type organizations to looser structures utilizing collaboration and team work. Fostering innovation through the collaborative efforts of several minds is likely to be more valuable than the thought of a lone individual. Like cogs in a machine, bringing together the right people, at the right time, in the right way is what good management is all about, and in the current working environment this is difficult to achieve without collaborative working tools.

Our 2009 ICT Barometer, a study amongst professional users of ICT, revealed that end users who are satisfied with their workspace environment likewise show high satisfaction scores for job and company engagement. Even more importantly, people who're given more freedom to work where and when they want, are generally more satisfied with their jobs. Someone said that happy cows give better milk, no?

Our core business being Workspace Management, we have integrated the ability to work where and when you want into our workspace model. This is not just about instant messaging, presence information, web conferencing or team sites. It’s about seamlessly combining functionalities in order to create the most appropriate environment for collaborative work. It’s about using new technologies to adopt new working attitudes that will increase your employees’ productivity.

How do you get there? Let us invite you to a discovery journey. Let’s build a roadmap, where we go through the following stages together:

• End user functionalities: what do your employees expect from their workspace? Which functionalities do they need to perform their jobs?
• How can we translate these expectations and needs into technology solutions? What are the requirements for providing a flexible working environment for a diverse user community, including home workers and ‘road warriors’?
• How do you secure this extended environment, knowing that there are many instances of successful attacks? How do you avoid the risk of losing corporate intellectual property or commercially sensitive information?
• What are the implementation costs? And how can you calculate the ROI?
• And last but not least: how mature is your corporate culture? How far can you go with relation to mobility, flexible working hours and virtual teams?