Team Player
Chances are you spend most of your business life working in the desktop “space”. You may spend some time in the enterprise “space” as well. What about the “in-between” space?
As we noted in last week’s Opinionizer, Lawson Smart Office helps to reduce the distance between the desktop space and the enterprise space. Enterprise applications become a natural extension of your desktop applications – especially Excel. By and large, you can use the applications you know and love at the desktop to drive your Lawson applications.
That still leaves a lot of space in between. How do you work with colleagues in your department? How do you create and manage the virtual teams that we hear so much about? How do you collaborate with other employees that are connected by a business process rather than by a physical organization?
We asked ourselves how Smart Office could help – not only in the desktop space and enterprise space – but also in the “team space”. The first part of the answer is that we’ve added collaborative tools into Smart Office. Tools like Microsoft Groove, Instant Messaging, real-time screen sharing, and shared shortcuts. With tools like these, you can collaborate more effectively with permanent teams, temporary teams or virtual teams.
Smart Office can help you improve your work as an individual contributor, as part of an enterprise, or as a member of any number of different teams. We don’t like to brag but we think it’s the biggest advance in user interfaces since, well… the push button phone. We’d like to know if you agree. So give us a call and we’ll create a virtual team.
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