What Is Collaboration and Mobility?

People are an organization’s greatest assets. Providing them a seamless means to collaborate creates opportunities to accelerate innovation. Your teams expect technology to be user friendly and integrate easily with their other tools and applications to enable them to focus on value-add activities and increase productivity and performance.

Collaboration and mobility are the key drivers of efficiency, productivity, and innovation. When supporting your local or international teams, you need a solution to provide everyone a way to collaborate, share files, and access files wherever they are. By developing a collaboration and mobility business strategy in advance, organizations can determine which options have the least impact on overhead costs.

Today, organizations want outcome-based collaboration. Senior management is very interested in how collaboration and mobility services help teams achieve their specific performance goals. To be successful, your teams need to access business contacts, applications, files, and modes of communication (e.g., chat, voice, video, desktop sharing, conferencing) from any device (e.g., desktop, laptop, mobile phone, tablet), from any location, at any time.

Senior management also wants solutions that have built-in interoperability and connectivity to all other business messaging and collaboration tools. This enables them to empower their teams to collaborate with external business partners on their own, without having to constantly rely on IT for help.

What are the benefits of a modern Collaboration and Mobility solution?

To increase employee productivity and performance, collaboration and mobility aim to securely improve workplace communications, content management, document management, and information flow across the organization.

Collaboration and mobility tools can enable a workforce to conduct business and share information more efficiently, providing an innovation advantage. When tools are implemented correctly, social collaboration can be the difference between growth and stagnation.

Companies face constant change and disruption, triggered by rapidly evolving markets and technologies. Agile businesses can remain competitive in this environment, by making the right decisions at the right time. The key to maximizing your organization’s agility, and ultimately their productivity, is through a collaboration and mobility infrastructure delivering robust, pervasive human communications and application access for all your teams.

Some of the key benefits of collaboration and mobility solutions are:

• Workplace Flexibility: Employees have the ability to work from any location, at any time, on just about any device. Employees can work fully remote, in office, or an entire spectrum of hybrid workplace options.
• Agility: Collaboration and mobility solutions form a digital infrastructure that enables organizations to pivot seamlessly from an on-site to mobile workforce, depending on the situation and need. Business demands change quickly, and an effective digital infrastructure allows organizations to rapidly adapt to any disruptions, ensuring business continuity.
• Increased Productivity: Collaboration and mobility solutions enable teams to meet and collaborate as if they are in the same room, at any time from any location. Research has shown that remote and hybrid scenarios promote a more productive workforce, and increase employee retention.
• Security: Cyberattacks pose an ever-present threat to any organization. Collaboration and mobility solutions allow teams to work and communicate from remote locations while leveraging effective cybersecurity solutions to ensure that data is protected and access to the organization’s network is secure.
• Speed Up Decision Making: Improve the speed of decision-making by reducing delays in communication. Cloud communication, virtual meeting platforms, and mobile apps allow teams to communicate with greater efficiency, reducing the time necessary to make decisions.
• Cost Reduction: Collaboration and mobility solutions reduce costs associated with travel, real estate, commuting, and more by enabling seamless communication while decreasing the need for in-person meetings or on-site work.