What are the top 12 technologies business should look for in 2018? Chatbots, Smart Health Tech and IoT, for starters.<\/p>\n
But I have to say – the Video one surprised me a little. However, after reading the explanation it does make sense now. Advanced Video [Conferencing, and even VR] technology can really help employees with meetings and presentations, and it could actually be fun, given the right technology and platform.<\/p>\n
In a survey of nearly 300 companies to determine what makes a great employee experience, researchers at MIT found a surprise at the top of the list: video. Investments in video technology lead to innovation, as well as improved collaboration and productivity, researchers found.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWe see firms investing significantly in interactive video technologies particularly as they spread the use of agile methodology<\/a> beyond their software development teams to the rest of the business,\u201d says Kristine Dery, a research scientist at MIT\u2019s Sloan Center for Information Systems Research. \u201cThis highly interactive agile method of project delivery \u2014 with daily stand-ups \u2014 \u00a0requires teams to either be face to face, or to have the technologies that replicate those more intimate situations as closely as possible.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Dery predicts that video tech will continue to simulate and improve face-to-face communication with new features, like virtual reality (VR) and other immersive tech (see below), especially as organizations<\/em> work to fill the skills gap with distributed teams.”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n