Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Benefits of VC

The benefits of Audio and Video Conferencing

Remote conferencing solutions allow:
Meetings including spontaneous meetings
Training
Interviews
Product training for employees and clients.
Sales representations and product launches.
Design and creative assessment, project liaison
Business to business consultancy services
Recruitment interviews
Even linking families on special occasions

This will give your organisation:
Increased speed of decision making
Better control of remote offices
Disaster recovery
Significant and immediate fiscal savings
Improved ‘quality of life’ for employees
Improved working relationships between geographically distant employees who would not normally meet

Audio Conferencing – An overview
Audio conferencing systems link people in geographically diverse locations into the same telephone conversation. They are quick, ad-hoc, reliable and extremely cost effective.

Video Conferencing
Video conferencing systems offer all of the functionality of high quality audio links with the added advantages true motion video and rich media services. Modern systems offer a natural ‘face-to-face’ meeting experience as well as the option to seamlessly introduce hardcopy documents and other electronic data such as spreadsheets and word-processed files. Tangible benefits are easily related to actual cost savings, both hard and soft; we have various tools available that can be used evaluate the potential return on investment. The most obvious quantifiable saving is the cost of travel and the cost of the time wasted during travel.

Include an example of a meeting held remotely and the potential cost savings involved.
Greatly improved communication between remote sites both within a company and between suppliers and customers
Reduced pressure, stress and fatigue from travel
Shorter product/project development times (this can be worth millions when it reduces time to market and/or improves the quality of the product or project)
Reduced time of meetings as the principle often applies when visiting
Immediacy of contact between people
Rapid face to face resolution of urgent situations
Ability to seize opportunities within narrow time frames
Faster and better decision making
Increased executive productivity
Broadcast of key messages throughout the company

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