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Mar 5 2013

Looking Back – A Year of Mobile Only

Looking Back – A Year of Mobile Only Mobile Only: Week 52 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. One trip around the sun. I’ve made it. After spending the week at Mobile World Congress in [...]
Feb 26 2013

How Enterprises Can Achieve a Complete Return on Mobility

How Enterprises Can Achieve a Complete Return on Mobility Mobile Only: Week 51 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. Enterprises everywhere are going all-in with mobility. They are arming their sales force with tablets, setting up [...]
Feb 18 2013

The Foundation of Mobile Productivity

The Foundation of Mobile Productivity Mobile Only: Week 50 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. According to the 80/20 rule (also known as the Pareto principal), “roughly 80% of the effects come [...]
Feb 11 2013

Selecting The Right Mobile App

Selecting The Right Mobile App One of the largest problems enterprises have when starting to develop enterprise mobile apps is trying to find out what to invest in or accomplish first. All of the following factors play a role in picking the right apps: alignment to company mission, alignment to mobility strategy, security, enabling new customer or sales processes, productivity [...]
Feb 10 2013

Making Mobile Palatable for the Enterprise

Making Mobile Palatable for the Enterprise Mobile Only: Week 49 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. My head is spinning from the diametrically opposed news as of late. The analyst firm Canalys released [...]
Feb 3 2013

Tracking Your Mobile—Something to Fear or the Next Frontier?

Tracking Your Mobile—Something to Fear or the Next Frontier? Mobile Only: Week 48 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. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday issued a wide-ranging, but non-binding, set of new guidelines [...]
Jan 28 2013

What would it take to convince you to ditch your iPhone?

What would it take to convince you to ditch your iPhone? Mobile Only: Week 47 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. Apple’s stock prices have fallen quite dramatically recently. Share price has fallen so much, from $702 USD [...]
Jan 19 2013

Enterprise Mobility is About Enabling Value Not Value Engineering

Enterprise Mobility is About Enabling Value Not Value Engineering Mobile Only: Week 46 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. The consumerization of IT has liberated the workplace. It has freed users from the tyranny of IT [...]
Jan 12 2013

I Hope the Phone Dies a Miserable, Horrible Death

I Hope the Phone Dies a Miserable, Horrible Death Mobile Only: Week 45 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. Much of the mobile device news from the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the [...]
Jan 7 2013

What CES SHOULD Say About Wearable Devices (But Probably Won’t)

What CES SHOULD Say About Wearable Devices (But Probably Won’t) Coming up to CES this week, one of the big themes discussed is around having wearable computers.  There has been speculation about the announcement of smart watches and smart glasses like Google Glass.  InsideFMM even asked “when will wearable computers become fashionable?” To me, there are several interesting aspects to this question: Reinventing the past, [...]