Integrated Professional Skills in Digital Age: Collaboration, Cloud Computing, Privacy and Security

INTEGRATED
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
IN DIGITAL AGE

Table of Contents.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Collaboration tool and its significance in the midst of pandemic................................................1
Merit and demerit of cloud storage and computing in improving digitalisation.........................3
Challenges and measures to combat privacy and security...........................................................5
Russia and Ukraine, Russia is trying to develop their own internet, disconnecting from the
global Internet, and controlling their local network on their own. Discuss the benefits and
limitations of these networks.......................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The pandemic has led to an immenent surge in using the digital technologies to avoid the
inefficiency in working of the businesses. Work-from-home is the new normal mode of
performing the job assigned. The current scenerio is that Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) has emmense important role in the digital businesses during the Covid-19
resulting in the upward rise in the gig economy. The research will describe the importance of
collaboration in workplace and identify how the collaboration tools have help the businesses to
survive the pandemic time while reducing the phycial among the employees. Further, the report
will critically analyse the merits and demerits of cloud storage and computing in improving the
digitalisation. The study will discuss the challenges and measures regarding the privacy and
security which has witnessed a rise during the global pandemic. In the end, the research will
evaluate the benefits and limitations of the internet network which Russia is trying to develop
due to the Ukraine war so as to disconnect from the whole world.
Collaboration tool and its significance in the midst of pandemic
Collaboration at workplace means sharing of innovative ideas, knowledge, experience,
skills, new perspectives by the group of colleagues in order to attain common objective (Castañer
and Oliveira, 2020). Working together helps to increase the productivity instead of individually
(Kulakov, 2020). It is beneficial for both the employees and the organisation. During pandemic,
collaboration has played a very significant role in running the businesses and the importance are:
 Foundation of work: An entity is formed with a group of individuals which focused to
share resources, services, ideas to meet the end goals. Collaboration binds the people in
the organisation together and is main foundation of process. The pandemic has shifted
the workforce to communicate and collaborate remotely with the help of using
technology which make the working feasible in the hard time.
 Overall work success: The success of the firm is highly dependable on how their
workforce are collaborating. For better teamwork, collaboration is crucial in achieving
the project goals (Yan, 2019). The degree of collaboration rely on the size of the team.
During Covid-19, Zoom app has given the efficient platform for the employees to
connect on a regular basis to attain overall success.
 Focus on individual responsibilities: The essential importance is to provide the
employees their duty within the team. They are provided with their role while working
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together and are accountable for that. Working together doesn't allow any individual to
run away from its responsibilities, instead they develop an employee from its core.
 Achieve common goals: The individuals role have been structured into output by the
team which aid them to accomplish their common goals. The pandemic time was
crucial for the businesses but due to work collaboration they are able to meet their
desirable outcomes.
 Growth and innovation: Innovation is an important part of the growth whether it's
business or an employee. Collaboration during pandemic through various channnels
benefitted them to exchange the thoughts and ideas while learning new skills using
online interface. Collaboration acts as a multiplier for unique and innovative ideas.
Defining collaboration tool is not easy as it is a grey area but in simple term it refers to
the interaction or conjunction tool used to connect between two or more people (Leising, Quist
and Bocken, 2018). In other words, it is an app which allows mutiple people to brainstorm ideas,
distribute tasks across teams, video conferencing to talk people virtually, collateral file sharing
within the team. This tool broaden the concept of collaboration. During the pandemic, these tools
help the organisation to survive through connecting remotely and performing the tasks. It helped
the businesses to succeed at the time when even the life of person was falling down. The tool
enabled 100% participation as WFH is the new working culture which witnessed full utilization
of the assets of the company's i.e. its members. The two collaboration tools which helped the
businesses to survive the pandemic reducing the phycial contact are:
 GoToMeeting: It is the web conferencing software with an enterprise-grade security.
During pandemic it helped the businesses to use this application due to the flexibility,
secure access, award winning rating, better support team, unbeatable uptime, high-quality
video meeting, enhanced audio, account management (Hurst, 2020). This tool was
beneficial for the teams to virtually meet and fulfill the tasks that are being alloted. Due
to high standard password protection it is also useful for the parent-teacher meetings and
educational classes during the Covid-19. Even after the post-pandemic, this web
conferencing app is crucial because many businesses are following the hybrid mode of
working which would be helpful in performing better without any hindrances.
 Google meet: Work-from-home became new norm in the midst of pandemic and online
meetings became routine through video meeting apps. The second collaboration tool
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