Group meetings can be done through face to face conference or the web conference. Face-to-face meetings require individuals to be in the same place at the same time whereas virtual meetings reach across geographical boundaries to even the most remote locations. Each kind of conference has its own pros and cons. Face-to-face meetings and conferences can cost a great deal due to travel expenses, accommodations, venue rental, and the packing and shipping of displays. According to Bloomberg Businessweek
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MIS In Your Pocket Q1: The kinds of applications that are described are as: e-mail, calendar, photo sharing, and text messaging applications to applications like the one used for MEDITECH electronic medical records system, ChainLinq Mobile, and the app developed by Timothy Childs to help control machines in his business. These types of applications help employees stay better kept up with each other and business information. The e-mail application allows employees to receive e-mails almost directly
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provides value to a business. Cost effectiveness and efficiency are two of them. For example, it allows sales representatives to do their presentations without meeting with customers face to face. Employees are also able to work at home while conducting meetings with other colleagues through videoconferencing. I consider it to be smart management simply because it will reduce the cost for traveling while improving the efficiency of conducting
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Virtual Meetings: Smart Management Analysis Jeff Hebert April 27, 2012 City University, Bellevue, WA Virtual Meetings: Smart Management Analysis Teleconferencing and video conferencing are a technologies that allow individuals to conduct meetings virtually. A virtual meeting can be as simple as a multi person conference call, to a full blown video meeting with several individuals from all over the world. Technology advances and increases in travel costs have made virtual meetings an
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and other aspects of office of the future? Some of the benefits, features, and other aspects of a virtual office that I want to take a look at are: the definition of a virtual office, technology and it’s role, people’s view of the future office, Microsoft’s view, an effective workspace, the flexibility of a virtual office, and what you might find/see in your office of the future. “A virtual office is a combination of off-site live communication and address services that allow users to reduce
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VIRTUAL MEETINGS: SMART MANAGEMENT Group - 3 Team Members Lokesh Singal Hardik Trivedi Raju Dandwani Nikunj Suhagiya Zayn Shaikh Index ● ● ● ● Introduction Case Study Questions MIS In Action References Introduction ● What are virtual meetings? 4 Videoconference ● A videoconference allows individuals at two or more locations to communicate simultaneously through two-way video and audio transmissions. ● Growing at an annual rate of 30 percent. ● Examples:
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ase 1: Virtual meetings: Smart Management Question 1: one consulting firm has predicted that video and web conferencing will make business travel extinct. Do you agree? Why or why not? Answer: I don’t agree with this consulting firm. I think video and tele conferencing will reduce the business travel in some extent (according to the case it 20%) but not totally. Regular business meeting can be done by the video or teleconferencing, but where it is necessary to be present physically, there is no
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[CHAPTER II : GLOBAL E-‐BUSINESS AND COLLABORATION] 1 HOMEWORK II 7. Interactive Session: Management: Virtual Meetings: Smart Management 7.1. What are the ways in which videoconferencing provides value to a business? Would you consider it smart management? Explain your answer. A Videoconference allows individuals at two or more locations to communicate simultaneously through two-way video and audio transmissions.
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SESSION: MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL MEETINGS: SMART MANAGEMENT Instead oftaking that 6:30 A.M. plane to make a round of meetings in Dallas, wouldn't it be great if you could attend these events without leaving your desktop? 'Ioday you can, thanks to technologies for videoconferencing and for hosting online meetings over the Web. A June 2008 report issued by the Global e-Sustainability Initiative and the Climate Group estimated that up to 20 percent of business travel could be replaced by virtual meeting technology
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Virtual meetings are the suboptimal reality of most information workers' lives. They save on travel time and costs, but they deprive meeting-goers of a host of non-verbal signals that help us understand each other. Without the body language, the information stream goes down from broadband to dial-up, the signal to noise ratio goes up, and the possibility for miscommunication accordingly rises. And it's not just the visual cues that are missing. The quality of most phone lines and digital voice lines
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