Today’s shifting economic and technological landscape is moving the work force away from a traditionally static model and toward a “virtual workforce,” in which diverse worker types are greatly distributed across organizational and geographic boundaries. We can no longer think of the workforce as simply permanent employees working at one office or location; instead workers of various roles, place and function are doing their part to drive business at branch offices, from home, on the road, at customer sites, between enterprises and beyond. Has your workforce moved beyond your headquarters office?
This virtual workforce promises great rewards in terms of increased efficiency, competitive advantage and lowered costs – both for IT and business across labor, travel and facilities. However, to deliver on this promise, organizations must find ways to securely meet workers’ technological expectations as well as fulfill corporate data security and compliance policy without adding complexity and expense in the face of ever-tightening budgets. Are your business leaders asking your IT organization to enable a broader virtual workforce and what challenges are you facing as a result?
With the potential of facility and labor cost reduction, access to a broader labor pool as well as travel and expense budget slashing, it’s no wonder many organizations are ready to embrace this new virtual workforce to make significant strides in worker, and business, productivity and satisfaction. Many see this as a chance to capture, and retain, the best talent at the best rate as well as better serve their customers – with higher response rates, better decision making and greater speed to market – ultimately positively impacting their bottom line. What business acceleration could a virtual workforce bring your organization?
What these workers share is a collective need to get their jobs done no matter where, when or what work they do. This is a great challenge for IT, responsible for streamlining an increasingly diverse, complicated and dynamic workforce on an increasingly limited budget. IT must provide desktops, applications, training, support and online collaboration tools to the entire organization promoting productivity and collaboration as well as ensuring secure access to relevant resources and data all in a consistent and reliable unified technology environment. Without proper planning, high costs and impaired efficiency could easily negate any potential benefits. What challenges are you facing in supporting a Virutal Workforce? So what is the answer?
Already over 200,000 organizations around the world are using Citrix to enable an efficient and productive virtual workforce for any sized company, from the largest enterprise to the smaller organization. By investing in a tightly integrated virtual workforce infrastructure once, these organizations are able to reap the benefits of centralized management and application delivery again and again across all business initiatives. No need to engineer a solution for many different types of users and scenarios. Design for just one case – the virtual user – to serve nearly everyone in the organization.
In this Synergy panel session (iForum 103), you will speak with Citrix customers – Innovation Award nominees – on how they have done just that.