In line with the policy of improving and innovating corporate management and operations, with the aim of minimizing management costs and travel time for PTSC’s member units, since October 2009, PTSC has started to implement the Video Conference system at the Corporation’s Headquarters (05 Lê Duẩn, Ho Chi Minh City) and at member units across the North, Central, and South regions.
The PTSC Board of Management chaired the first online meeting between the two “locations” of Ho Chi Minh City and Vũng Tàu.
On October 12, under the chairmanship of PTSC General Director Nguyễn Hùng Dũng, the Corporation’s Board of Management and its member units held their first online briefing session through the Video Conference system, replacing the usual face-to-face meetings at the Corporation’s headquarters.
This form of online meeting, integrating telecommunications and information technology, has been successfully applied in many parts of the world, with the main equipment including display screens, video cameras, audio recording devices, and sound systems.
The application of Video Conference with real-time audio and visual transmission has brought numerous benefits such as easy deployment, independence from geographical space and number of participants, savings on travel and accommodation expenses, ease of sharing data, information, and charts… while significantly reducing meeting organization costs but still ensuring effectiveness comparable to centralized meetings.
During the online meeting, General Director Nguyễn Hùng Dũng also shared: “In the near future, PTSC will gradually install the Video Conference system at its units in the North, Central, and South regions, as well as at PTSC’s branches and project offices operating in Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Cuba, Venezuela… as well as on offshore service vessels and FSO/FPSOs… to facilitate work and information exchange.|
PTSC will also seek permission from PetroVietnam to connect with the Group’s online Video Conference system when necessary.” For key projects with strict progress and quality requirements, the Corporation’s leadership will directly participate in steering or holding meetings at the units or project sites.
It can be said that PTSC’s adoption of the Video Conference system for online meetings demonstrates its dynamism in management and corporate governance, bringing efficiency to production and business activities, contributing to reduced management costs, increased revenue and profit—especially at a time when all Vietnamese enterprises are striving to overcome the common global economic challenges.
(Sai Gon Giai Phong, 23/10)
