What the interactive educational experience can teach the workplace

Source: https://www.worktechacademy.com/interactive-educational-experience-workplace/
The diverse classroom settings of education are well
schooled in enabling digital teams to build and share knowledge easily, and in
catering for the widest range of need. What lessons do they hold for
interactive technology in the corporate workplace?
The corporate workplace can learn a great deal from
education when it comes to digital collaboration and the demands of digital
teams.
That is the message from Dutch company CTOUCH, which has
been a pioneer in interactive technology in the education sector and is now
launching a new offer in the UK’s smart office arena.
The diverse classroom settings found in schools, further
education colleges and universities form the ideal training ground for
development for a number of reasons, says CTOUCH.
There is engagement with the workforce of the future in an
environment that has seen rapid adoption of touchscreen technology.
There is the challenge of finding a way to accommodate the
widest range of devices and platforms quickly and seamlessly – a key feature of
the educational experience.
And there is the practical learning curve of experimenting
in an educational market that has been ahead of the curve in the knowledge
economy in understanding how digital groups build and share knowledge.
Now CTOUCH is set to apply the lessons of developing
interactive technology in education to the corporate office. It has developed a
smart screen system called ‘Leddura 2 Meet’ that aims to tackle the core issues
within the workplace through a versatile software-driven approach.
Working
with the future workforce
Although this is not CTOUCH’s debut in the corporate
workspace, its work in education is has enabled the company to study and
understand the needs of the future workforce before they enter the workplace.
Millennials will make up two-thirds of the workforce by 2030 according to
Forbes Magazine. They have grown up learning and adapting to new technologies;
as a result, they expect immediacy, seamless connectivity and ease of use.
However, the workforce does not just comprise millennials
and digital natives. There are currently four generations in the workforce, and
technology must respond ergonomically to each generation.
The ‘Leddura 2 Meet’ aims to be a swift and intuitive
enabler of collaboration. While some may pick up the technology immediately,
CTOUCH provides onsite training to ensure everyone in the company has the
knowledge to use it.
Accommodating
an agile workforce
Introduction of this new system is taking place at a time
when the Activity-Based Working (ABW) model has taken the corporate world by
storm, with many organisations making significant design and architectural
changes to their workspaces to accommodate a shift in working style. This means
that organisations are looking for technology that is easily adaptable and
agile in its environment.
Traditionally, meeting rooms were in a fixed location in a
corporate office. Now, buildings can collect data on space utilisation which
can offer an organisation a better understanding of how the building should be
designed. The layout of new workplaces is therefore featuring multiple collaboration
spaces and meeting rooms.
CTOUCH has experience in developing adaptable technology to
accommodate for high-agility classrooms. It has used this experience to create
a simple plug-and-play hardware which can be moved around the building on
wheels.
Supporting
remote working
As technology develops and organisations have a better
understanding of different styles of working, there is growing acceptance of
the need to work remotely from the office. But in order for remote working to
be successful, collaboration and innovation cannot be compromised by technology
failings.
This solution from CTOUCH aims to support distributed
working through immediate screen-sharing capabilities, note sharing, and
integration with popular work tools such as Skype for Business.
There is no log-in to the system so anyone can use it,
making this an appropriate solution for the increase in co-working spaces.
Organisations are actively working with external partners in order to innovate
more effectively. This system allows internal and external parties to screen
share and annotate the screen together, which enhances the ease of remote
collaboration.
Protecting
data privacy
As data information becomes a valuable commodity for an
organisation there is a greater emphasis on network and information security.
CTOUCH has acknowledged this by making its solution privacy aware. When
collaboration occurs in a meeting with an external party who isn’t connected to
the business, they are provided with a USB key to connect to the shared session
protect network security.
After the meeting is completed and notes and annotations
have been shared and sent, the history of that meeting is automatically deleted
from the software and hardware. This means no historic data can be accessed
through the system, and instead only online via emails sent in the meeting.
Enhancing
innovation and productivity
Companies have been searching for a way out of the
post-financial crash productivity dip for almost a decade in the UK. Many
solutions have been tried but there is no quick fix. As a result, companies are
now looking to enhance employee experience and ease pressures on their
workforce in a bid to create the conditions to harness innovation and
productivity.
Innovation often comes to a halt when technical barriers
disrupt creative flow. The solution developed by CTOUCH aims to alleviate daily
stresses surrounding frustrating technical issues to create a product which
enables innovation and productivity through ease of use and collaborative
functions.
The educational market has proved to be an ideal training ground for CTOUCH to address the challenges of a diverse and demanding user group that wants to connect, collaborate and innovate in a seamless way and its own terms, respecting privacy and security. That is the workforce of the future and CTOUCH’s interactive technology is tailored to their needs.
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