Saturday, December 15, 2007

Let’s Get Together… Online.

Efficiency in business processes is mandatory for any successful business, but now there’s a new way to define efficiency.
Your company can create its very own online office space at no cost. In this space, employees can make contributions in the form of notes, project parts, or uploaded documents. What’s better is that other employees can actually remove, edit, or supplement the work of their peers. A document can even be worked on by multiple team members simultaneously, and the changes made appear in real-time. There can be one work space for the entire company, however it’s probably most practical to make separate work spaces for different work groups, teams, or projects, and then compiling a list of links to all company project work pages in one central, company-wide online space.
Depending on your company’s privacy preferences, each of these work spaces can be separately designated as either public (viewable by anyone on the internet) or private (password protected). A nice feature of working online in this manner is that all the benefits that apply to team members working in adjacent cubicles also apply to teams spread across wide geographic locations (i.e. in different cities). This is great for a company like yours which has offices in four states (that is, after all, how your company derived its name: San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, and Chicago = SNAC Pharmaceuticals, Inc.). An online work environment eliminates the necessity for even a telephone call because team members are able to collaborate and leave notes in the online work space.

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