HP Innovation Journal Issue 13: Winter 2019 | Page 44

Collaboration is the essence of productivity and
innovation in the workplace, and it is the glue that
keeps employees highly engaged and motivated
towards a common goal.
HIGHLY COLLABORATIVE
WORKING ENVIRONMENTS
The African proverb “If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together” fits well with the future
of WorkCulture.
Collaboration is the essence of productivity and innovation
in the workplace, and it is the glue that keeps employees
highly engaged and motivated towards a common goal. It
is the heart and soul of corporate WorkCulture.
According to the Harvard Business Review Analytic Service
Survey, March 2018, companies with a high degree of con-
nectivity and collaboration are more than twice as likely to
report a better market position than their peers. Further-
more, 40% of highly connected companies say their revenue
grew more than 10% over the past two years, versus only
29% of those with poor collaboration. A connected and
collaborative workforce empowered with the right data
helps companies to operate at speed.
access to content that easily integrates with an array of
enterprise systems and applications. UCC solutions are
becoming highly sophisticated platforms through some
advanced features:
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Intuitive content-sharing solutions to enable people to
share information and work together more effectively and
help new hires find resources easily.
Intranet and social networks to motivate employees to
make social connections and build fellowship.
Intelligent conferencing solutions supporting
functionality such as digital assistants and voice
recognition technology to perform tasks such as auto
wakeup of a communications device upon entering a
room, auto login, calendaring, and scheduling meetings.
Looking ahead, more advanced functionality could
include background noise suppression, augmenting
solutions with leading-edge technology such as AI,
biometrics, facial recognition, virtual/augmented reality,
and intelligent voice/video framing.
The same Harvard survey shows that a collaborative culture
must be enabled by technology, confirmed by 70% of their
respondents with highly engaged environments. In compa-
nies with low connectivity and collaboration, 72% strongly
agree that having outdated technology is making it harder
to retain employees with high-value skills and experience. Conferencing solutions are vital for employee collabora-
tion. Since employees spend around 16% of their working
week in meetings and 65% of them collaborate multiple
times a day, intelligent conferencing solutions can effec-
tively deliver a positive user experience in the way workers
schedule, set up, access, and work together.
Organizations are looking for Unified Communication and
Collaboration (UCC) solutions that provide easier, more
intuitive end-user experiences with anywhere, anytime Spending on UC&C solutions is forecast to grow at a
CAGR of 8.1% for the 2018–2022 period, reaching $53.8
billion in 2022.
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