Mobile Only: Week 11 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. I have spent the last two weeks travelling on business. Last week, at a client in Washington [...] Android in The Enterprise
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Mobile Only – You Are Now Free to Move About the Cabin
Mobile Only: Week 11 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. I have spent the last two weeks travelling on business. Last week, at a client in Washington [...] Mobile Project Collaboration – The Third Wheel
Mobile Only: Week 10 Benjamin Robbins, an EMF member, is spending the next year working solely from a single mobile device. Each week he shares his thoughts and experience with us on what it means to be mobile-only. Project collaboration is a pivotal exercise for enterprise computing. Organizations will often put a lot of initial [...] Can You Hear Me Now? – Collaborative Mobile Communication
Mobile Only: Week 9 If there is one aspect of collaboration that a mobile device should greatly excel at over a PC, it is communication. Mobile devices have two distinct advantages over desktop PCs. First, remote meetings can happen in diverse environments beyond my desk. I can be at home, in a conference room, or [...] Mobile Only – What’s It Gonna Take?
Mobile Only: Week 8 What’s it going to take to not think of mobile devices as just an addition to the PC mind-set? How can we move to a more streamlined setup? This week I am taking a short break from examining collaboration to look at the latest Forrester research on mobile devices. According to [...] The Enterprise Mobility Policy Guidebook: April 2012 Edition
This is the latest edition of the mobility policy guidebook that includes additional recommendations based on the changing needs of the workplace, including tablets, app stores and individually liable devices. What’s new in this edition: The COPE Model (Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled) This is an alternative to BYOD Corporate Data Access GeoFencing 3rd Party Apps [...] Mobile Brainstorming – Do you Doodle or Document?
Mobile Only: Week 7 When it comes to brainstorming are you a doodler or a documenter? In a meeting, do you instinctively reach for the dry-erase marker and head on up to the whiteboard – with lines, boxes, and stick-figures soon littering the entire space? Or do you prefer to sit down in front of [...] Enterprise Mobility – Teaming Up
Mobile Only: Week 6 Mobile devices, with their native capabilities of voice, video, connectivity, and portability are an enterprise productivity power-house. They have the possibility to allow teams to collaborate in ways that used to require separate pieces of equipment. However, as with many of the topics I have been covering, the capabilities of the [...] Mobile Office Apps – I Have One Simple Request
Mobile Only: Week 5 Spell check – is it too much to ask?! Seriously. I don’t feel like its a big request but perhaps it is. OK, so I admit it, I am a terrible speller. As far as I am concerned, the best feature in the history of computing is the red squiggly line [...] Inside Looking Out: An Executive View on Enterprise Mobility with Naeem Zafar
It’s certainly been a while, but welcome back to the latest edition of Inside Looking Out. We had the opportunity to sit down last week with Naeem Zafar, CEO of Bitzer Mobile, an enterprise mobility solution provider that utilizes a secure, mobile app container to isolate corporate access and data. We covered a broad range [...] Mobility – The Skin That You’re In
Mobile Only: Week 4 When I first began this endeavor of working only from my smartphone, the experience was strange, unusual, and slow. Even with using a monitor, keyboard, and mouse I found it took extra time to complete tasks. I attributed this to years of executing tasks on the PC in the same manner, [...] 