Leverage Your Team with a Digital Boardroom & Enter Into Digital Transformation
People all over the world are now understanding the importance of digital transformation in the workplace and moving towards an entirely digital workflow. Using a digital workspace is great for reducing your impact on the environment and bringing hybrid teams together in a shared space.
But an even better outcome of making your meetings digital by using an online whiteboard is that you actually improve productivity and collaboration through the use of tools like virtual whiteboards. With a digital transformation mindset, businesses and their workplaces can begin to experience the productive advantages that come with it. Moving from a static model and into an era of remote connectivity and collaboration, businesses will need to address several key areas of digital transformation, including:
- Process transformation
- Business model transformation
- Domain transformation
- Cultural/Organizational transformation
When you make your boardroom digital and leverage the possibilities attached with virtual whiteboards, your team is freed from the shackles of their paper prison. You no longer have to look through piles of papers or frantically print out your meeting minutes just before heading into the boardroom. No one will waste time looking for new dry-erase board markers or working around P.L.O. information from previous meetings.
Instead, you will have a focused, clear way of working that will save time, resources, and accomplish more.
Today, most of the time there already exists a tech solution to improving business KPIs, employee communication, and more. You just need to go looking for it. That’s the case with virtual whiteboards. Leaders need to be aware of the tools that will help them remain competitive and effective, and employees need to be expectant of having technologies at their fingertips to work in a digital-first work environment.
Here’s why using a virtual whiteboard accelerates your boardroom into the next generation of digital transformation.
Team Collaboration Improves
By using technology like the Microsoft Surface Hub or other large touch screens products, in conjunction with also using integrated virtual whiteboard tools like Stormboard, you can improve collaboration among team members.
These tools visually show your team what their collaborative efforts look like, just like traditional whiteboards. But, unlike a whiteboard, you are using a digital workspace that stores all of your information securely for you.
Using Stormboard — an online shared whiteboard with the Microsoft Surface Hub allows your team to add content, comment on, vote on, and prioritize the most important content during meetings. Once your meeting is over, your team can access Stormboard from any device to keep the momentum and collaboration going. With virtual whiteboards you never truly have to leave a brainstorming session -- even if inspiration hits late at night, you can quickly access your meeting’s content and continue contributing. The accessibility that comes with digital transformation helps keep businesses ready whenever teams need their tools.
Mixing Up Your Meetings
Part of why people hate meetings is because they are always held in the same spot, facing the same whiteboard. Working in the same physical space all the time stagnates work and stalls creativity.
If you are using Stormboard on a large touch screen, some of your Team can be up at the virtual whiteboard adding content, while everyone else can be signed into the same Storm on their own devices. That means that everyone is an active participant whether they are standing at the front of the room, sitting at the boardroom table, in their private office, or on the other side of the world!
This aspect of virtual whiteboards is also a key component to time savings. With individuals being able to create and collaborate at the same time, it cuts down meeting duration, prevents the need for “roundtable” talk, and gives everyone a holistic view of the meeting minute by minute.
Creativity is Sparked
Looking back and forth from a whiteboard to your laptop to the meeting facilitator to paper meeting agendas never gives anyone time to think!
Using new and innovative technology sparks inspiration, but it also frees up time for teams to think, create, and innovate.
If value is the ultimate goal, creativity is the engine that gets us there. (source)
If you want to hold the attention of your meeting attendees, give their brains some breathing room AND blow their minds at the same time -- an interactive virtual whiteboard is the best way to do that! The Stormboard for Microsoft Surface Hub allows you to capture all of the important meeting content in Stormboard and make it look amazing on a high-resolution screen at the front of the room.
The interactive touch display will inspire collaboration and make adding content to your Storms more streamlined.
Working Remotely is Simplified
Working remotely doesn’t always mean being 500 miles away from the office.
Many businesses have several locations in the same city or across their state, which makes working remotely the only way they CAN work!
Collaborating remotely with Stormboard on the Microsoft Surface Hub allows anyone to join in on meetings through the Hub’s video conferencing abilities and be a part of the collaboration by joining the Storm where the meeting is taking place at the same time. Anyone and everyone who is working remotely will be able to keep up to date with each different team in each different location.
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Making your boardroom digital is a big advantage to your Enterprise. Your team members, both remote and local, get to experience great technology while being a part of something bigger!
Stormboard is the best virtual whiteboard available and a leader in helping businesses scale towards complete digital transformation. Go digital and work better together — learn more about how Stormboard works with the Microsoft Surface Hub here!
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