
Welcome to the Ingenious Minds Blog of Dean Fernandes, Global Executive Director, Unified Communication and Collaboration Solutions.
- Telecommuting has been much in the news lately, with certain executives declaring telecommuting off-limits to their employees. While some companies in certain industries may have good reasons behind such decisions, in most cases a ban on telecommuting is simply not workable.
- Today, companies launch a new product and then get feedback on social media. But what if they could flip that scenario around and make product decisions based on what's already being said?
- Unified communications opens up a lot of possibilities for individuals and businesses. Here's a quick video explaining how.
- What do you do first thing in the morning? Do you check your voice mail? Probably not. Like many people, you probably first reach for a mobile device and look at email or social networks. Or maybe you look for texts or instant messages. Whatever the case, people want to communicate in their own ways – in fact, they increasingly expect to be able to do so, in work as well as in their personal lives.
- We’ve gotten past the novelty of mobility, and we’re now in a world where workers expect to have certain mobile freedoms in their work lives.
- Ten years ago, “work” was the building you went into – the physical location, the desk, the computer, the phone. But all that has changed, and the changes open up a wealth of possibilities.
- There has been a lot of hand-wringing in enterprise companies over the phenomenon of "bring your own device," or BYOD. People ask if it's a good thing to bring outside devices into your organization, devices that could be outside of the enterprise's control. But this is the wrong question.
- There is some value to adding voice over IP to your communications – but if you really want the full value of unified communications, you have to look beyond that.
