Tapping Into The Potential of Virtual Teams With Siemens Enterprise Communications

Unstructured business process is more distributed than ever thanks to smartphone platforms iOS and Android.  As the workforce has become more mobile, work teams have become more distributed and virtual.  Mobility brings freedom and increased individual productivity but a new study finds that working in virtual teams has a long way to go before group productivity climbs.  I discuss how to tap into the huge potential of organized virtual teams through Unified Communications and Collaboration or UCC with Ross Sedgewick, Global Marketing at Siemens Enterprise Communications.          Duration: 14:50 minutes   Lippis Intro/Analysis @ : 00:10 sec   Question 1 @ 1:26 sec: Ross, lets start with the study.  What were the main findings about virtual teams?    Question 2 @ 6:24 sec: Ross, there’s a lot of untapped productivity in today’s virtual teams.  One main problem is that people are using old tools like email, voice and conference calls while virtual and they are getting frustrated with them.  What are the new tools for virtual teams?   Question 3 @ 9:36 sec: Ross, Siemens’s approach to virtual team collaboration tools is called amplifyTEAMS.  What is amplifyTEAMS and how does it increase virtual team productivity?   Question 4 @ 12:55 sec: Ross, what’s the business outcome gain when organizations implement amplifyTEAMS?