The company I work for is a multi national one. It has operations in the US, Europe, India, South West Asia and the South East Asia. The time zones they work-in differ. The coordination between them for effective working is also pretty difficult to achieve. On many occasions, it is quite common to find an excuse for remote collaboration. It becomes imperative for the teams that had split members in various geographical locations to work in cohesion. Something that would make sure that every one of the team members knew how and when the other people in their team at the other end of the world will execute the work for them.
It is important for the success of every team that its members are knit into cohesiveness. There should be networking and connections existing between its members to ensure that there is an ongoing collaboration resulting in the success of the team.

The company decided to introduce an online collaborating network between the team members of every team. Though the team members were sitting at different locations across the globe, they were literally sitting next to one another. They could interact in real time as long as they all worked at the same time frame. This synchronizing of the work timings could happen only on specific occasions such as online meetings whereas most of the day to day communications took both asynchronous and synchronous forms.

The timings across the locations were so worked out that there is an overlap of timings between every one of them. This made sure that your colleague in the next location will be present at least for a few hours before you log off and go home. You could interact with every one in the team making it an attractive proposal. There was a greater understanding across the teams and the resultant benefits to the overall team progress were immense.

May be you can also try this out at your own company.

This is particularly suitable if you have a distributed environment to take care; where team members are at different locations and have to deliver widely varying work. Such work might look for on going collaboration between the team members. If such collaboration does not happen, then there is always a possibility, the overall performance of the team and the resultant satisfaction reached by the client could all be under question. Take this factor also into consideration when you look for an online meeting solution for your company.