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BackElisa has saved thousands of business trips and millions of euros with online meetings
Press release, 28 May 2009
As working and meetings become increasingly online-based, it is possible to improve productivity through virtual services. Elisa sets an example of how the virtual services provided by the company save time, money and the environment. This year, Elisa has saved over 7,000 round trips, which computationally amounts to over EUR 2 million.
Virtual work tools, such as the Elisa Meeting Center service, create new working models and service opportunities, which makes for easier and more effective working. For example, travelling is more flexible, as you can work remotely to avoid the morning traffic jam, or easily work at your secondary residence.
Increasingly extensive working online and replacing travel with virtual meetings may increase productivity in the same way as the Internet and the development of IT have done during this and the last decade.
- In Finland, the opportunities of online technology are well understood, but the old operational models do not change quickly enough, since there still is an unwillingness to change the stiff structures. The major challenges are in the service, public and SME sectors, says Pasi Mäenpää, Executive Vice Presiden, Corporate Customers at Elisa.
Mäenpää addresses the future of communications technology at the ICT Forum Helsinki 2009 event. According to him, Elisa is confident in the growth of productivity and well-being through communications technology. Regarding the public sector, in sparsely populated areas, a virtual approach provides an opportunity to improve the service, as a virtual customer service representative could be taken to joint service locations in order to provide a more personal service.
Strategy guru Gibson: A relatively large number of world-class leaders come from the small country of Finland
- Finland is a relatively small country, but its seems that a large number of world-class leaders emerge from here. I find that we can learn a lot from how Finnish companies have become international, says strategy guru Rowan Gibson.
According to Gibson, an innovation expert appearing at the ICT Forum in addition to Pasi Mäenpää, ICTs can be used to spread innovative thinking throughout the organisation. Gibson finds it important that companies tap the entire creativity and talent pool within the organisation and in cooperation with interest groups. A large amount of untapped innovation potential is also found outside research and development departments.
ICT Forum 2009 will take place in Koskenranta, Helsinki, on 28 May 2009, starting at noon. Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Markets, at Nokia, will also appear at the event, discussing the developmental trends in mobile technology. Veli-Matti Mattila, Elisa's CEO, will give the opening speech of the event.
Additional information:
Pasi Mäenpää, EVP, Elisa Corporation, tel. +358 50 60250 pasi.maenpaa[@]elisa.fi