Communication binds companies together. Without strong communication from the bottom to the top there are going to be problems and those problems will fester like untreated cavities. But business communication isn’t simply linked to conversation, memos and emails. With the internet, there are often satellite offices across the world for larger companies. Due to globalization they are also often doing business with companies far away.
While business trips to visit your other offices or your clients are useful (often crucial), sometimes you need to have fairly constant communication with your own co-workers and with your potential clients. Business trips aren’t conducive to that. While you would . So the counter to that is video conferencing. Video conferencing allows you to have excellent communication with your non-office associates. It allows for discussion and communication when otherwise it may be bland text on an email.
There are a lot of different kinds of video conferencing. These give you multiple ways to stay communicative. Here are some of the options your business has for their video conferencing:
- Mobile Video Conferencing – This is becoming a common and powerful video conferencing option. It allows anyone to conference in from their phone and tablet and be able to communicate with the group. You can see other conferencers through single or multiple panels, so you can zoom in on whoever is speaking, and then switch over whenever someone else is taking the lead. This is a good platform but it doesn’t always allow for full conversations with full conferencing.
- Room-Based Video – This is one of the best for large companies with satellite offices and global customers. Room based video allows companies to create individual specific meeting rooms that will transfer the contents of the entire room to similar rooms elsewhere. This is a great way to manage large groups of people. It allows entire divisions from different regions to meet up and work together. This is especially fantastic for things like research and development where they can have inter-continental brainstorming sessions.
- Executive Systems – Executive systems are unsurprisingly meant for executives. They tend to be desktop based systems that are centered around their office. Executive systems tend to offer higher quality video conferencing, often will full HD. There’s something to be said for sitting behind a huge mahogany desk and having 3 70 inch screens come down out of the ceiling so you have beautiful visuals for your conference call. The perks of being an executive can be plentiful!
- Immersive Telepresence – This takes room based video conferencing and it goes to a much higher level. With the way that your screens are placed it makes you look like you’re all sitting at a table working together. It’s the kind of video conferencing that you will often see in movies when there are secret shadow organizations that need to have meetings. Each of the villains will hologram into the same table to discuss their nefarious deeds. Immersive telepresence gives you the ability to plot your nefarious business deeds and sometimes will include full 3D or holographic options. As virtual reality technology continues to improve, it’s likely that VR will become incorporated into teleconferencing to a large degree.