There is no more important fuel for the future of your organization than innovation. By supporting a culture focused on experimenting, devising, and creating new ideas for how your company can be more agile and productive, you set up your business for success. But now that hybrid-work models have become the default mode of working, how can you effectively drive innovation and productivity for your distributed workforce?
Hybrid work and innovation are not opposed to each other. Indeed, 80 percent of business leaders believe that in a post-pandemic world, their organizations will enter a phase of hyper-innovation due to tech-powered hybrid working generating more ideas than ever. However, unlocking this innovation demands a flexible workspace strategy that avoids the constraints of the past and puts technology to its best use. Here’s how Citrix can help you unlock the innovative potential of your hybrid workforce.
How Citrix Empowers Hybrid Workers with a Great Employee Experience
One of the driving forces behind the emergence of hybrid work is employee choice. To help each member of your distributed workforce innovate and create, you need to let them choose and define their ideal working environment. This requires seamless delivery of their preferred apps, desktops, and other tools inside a consistent and compelling work experience — regardless of where they work and on which device.
Today, enabling a seamless hybrid work experience has become crucial — 61 percent of employees say they spend more time trying to get technology to work than they’d like. As your organization explores ways to empower hybrid workers to innovate, it’s best to begin with internal journey mapping. Examine your existing hybrid-work processes, technology, and collaboration tools, especially those you had to implement quickly in 2020. Systems you set up in survival mode are rarely right for the innovation-driving hybrid work model you want to build.
Delivering a secure and productive hybrid-work experience that drives innovation everywhere is one reason Citrix created Citrix Workspace. To make it simpler than ever to support hybrid-work innovation and collaboration, Citrix Workspace empowers distributed workforces with a unified and streamlined work experience. This delivers seamless and consistent access to the employee’s preferred apps and desktops along with built-in integrations for tools like Microsoft Teams, Google Chrome, and Salesforce. Citrix Workspace also strengthens access security with single sign-on without slowing or hindering the hybrid-work experience. The result is a secure and flexible workspace that fits how, when, and where your hybrid employees do their most innovative work.
How to Simplify IT Management for Hybrid Work with Citrix
As the providers of workspace technology, your IT team also has a crucial role to play in enabling hybrid-work innovation. However, IT often faces the tough task of managing, securing, and supporting all the enterprise apps your hybrid workers rely on. This got harder during the 2020 transition to remote work, as many organizations adopted a slew of new apps for remote workers that also made their IT stack much more complex.
The pace of technological change is not slowing down, as 70 percent of business leaders plan to roll out new IT tools and infrastructure in the next 12 months. As your organization transitions to hybrid work, it’s vital to simplify IT management for your distributed workforce. This will enable IT to fully empower your hybrid workers to innovate without worrying about app sprawl or security risks undermining the benefits of hyper-innovation.
In addition to supporting a productive hybrid work experience, Citrix Workspace makes it easier for IT to manage and secure hybrid workers. Designed for flexibility, Citrix Workspace enables IT to scale resources up and down quickly as employee needs change — simplifying onboarding and management associated expenses. In addition, Citrix Workspace gives IT the ability to move workloads to the cloud at the pace that’s right for your organization. And with baked in access security, Citrix Workspace protects your distributed workforce while accelerating your adoption of zero trust security.
Unlocking Hybrid Works Innovation in Your Organization
To empower your hybrid workforce to accelerate innovation, you need a secure, simplified, and personalized workspace that gives each employee all they need to excel wherever they work. For more insight into designing a secure hybrid work experience that drives innovation, check out the Citrix 2021 Smarter Workplace Report.
