Virtual Workspace –The Hyper-linked Organization
The business horizon today is lined with a number of corporate sectors, which have spread its wings as multinational organizations. These organizations largely rely on their multicultural and distributed workforce to mange their global assets. However, these teams, which span functional, geographical and corporate boundaries, besides been located worldwide, have worked together on various projects as virtual teams. The emerging technological innovations have enabled these teams with a virtual workspace making it easier for them to communicate and work effectively under the same umbrella.
The concept of Virtual workspace is a boon to the corporate sectors as well as to the employees. The corporate companies can leverage the global expertise of the virtual team members, understand the market pulse of diverse markets, and devise organizational strategies for higher productivity and better profit sharing. For the workforce, this gives more scope of job flexibility with minimum or none relocation, lesser travel and more time for self and family while still be working for Corporate giants across geographical boundaries. Even though far off physically, they can still participate in key strategic decision making process for the organization and also gain from the pool the knowledge of experts.
The mobile workforce solution is designed to increase the productivity of the employees while giving them flexibility of time and location. Hence a virtual workspace should be available online and accessible from any location irrespective of the time or machine and provide for an uninterrupted workflow. This requires the normal desktops to be connected to a technology platform, which can pave way for effective workspace virtualization solutions. The workspace virtualization technology would enable the corporate organizations to empower their mobile workforce irrespective of the location.
The leaders in the IT service sectors have developed dynamic virtual desktop platform as a scalable and reliable solution to meet the requirements of the corporate world. This would help the organizations to effectively provide for, deliver and efficiently streamline the lifecycle of virtual workspace. With simplicity of operations, such virtual desktop technology solutions facilitate the organizations to mange delivery challenges with lesser turnaround time, low infrastructure requirement and in a cost-effective manner.