Becoming a Virtual Company

Response to “Becoming a Virtual Company”

Steven J.

Bus 107, 045 016

Prof. LONG VAN DINH Sr.

October 12, 2008

My Response to the Article

    “Becoming a Virtual Company”, (http://www.inc.com/magazine/19951215/2647.html)

was both an interesting and educational article. The author notes seemingly simple tasks

and procedures in order to improve success utilizing internet technology. For example,

automating tasks that waste time is vital to any organization. I work in the health care

field, as a Medical Lab Tech. There are countless areas in the lab where internet

technology has streamlined the process of patient care. For example, we inter laboratory

requisitions into the computer that stores it until the testing is complete. Then test results

are uploaded onto the system, making it available for all care providers to use. This

reduces the necessity for information to be transferred in a traditional manner; paper, logs

and verbal, which causes potential error and miss interpretation of data.

  Although the article was published in 1995, there are sound principles that are covered

like; using email, utilizing companywide electronic filing cabinets and motivating staff to

utilize these tools, which can be applied in today’s corporate setting. Email allows staff to

communicate to one another without the necessity for meetings or waiting for a phone

messages to be heard, deciphered and returned. Companywide electronic filing cabinets

are the company “intranet” sites of today. These are exclusive web sites, accessible by

company members only, that allow access to all types of organizational information

including; human resource files, employment opportunities, company news and other

documents pertaining to company business. By encouraging staff to utilize this

technology, companies catapult their internal strengths by leaps and bounds. [continues]

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