- Mobility workbook - Developing a Mobile Strategy: Preparing for the Next Discontinuous Change
1 Feb 03 | Workbooks
This workbook is designed to supplement the Research Services´ workshop on building a mobility strategy. T
he purpose of this workbook is to provide participants with a structured approach to building a mobility strategy, and to begin to populate that strategy with ideas and visions.
The mobility strategy workbook is a complete document that includes visions, descriptions, cost estimates, savings estimates, cost-benefit comparisons, implementation plans, risks and potential hurdles.
See report: Developing a Mobility Strategy: Preparing for the Next Discontinuous Change
- Improved collaboration via videoconferencing
30 Nov 04 | Journal Articles
In the extensive literature on the topic of business innovation, few subjects get more coverage than the need for effective intra- and increasingly inter-company collaboration.
While improving collaboration is often a cultural issue, information technologies can also play an important role.
- The ‘Consumerization’ of Information Technology
18 Jun 04 | Position Papers
The ‘consumerization’ of information technology is a powerful trend that promises many significant long-term business consequences, including radically lower costs, greatly improved functionality, and successive generations of users who are ever more technology-savvy.
Consumer devices and infrastructure are also becoming an important platform for a wide variety of innovative new products, services and applications.
In this paper we take a high-level look at what we mean by consumerization, why this process matters to businesses of all sizes, and how companies should begin to approach and manage this important and still not fully appreciated phenomenon.
Subsequent research will focus on consumerization’s effect upon IT infrastructure, recommended strategies for implementation and detailed case studies.
We believe that this issue is important enough to merit ongoing research coverage for the next few years.
- Public Infrastructure – How to Get Started
26 May 04 | Presentation
Using the example of mobility technologies, John will discuss matching public infrastructure capabilities with unmet needs, planning and preparing for an experiment, provisioning for, and running, the experiment.
A workbook is provided covering this material to help you get started.
- Consumerized Technology
26 May 04 | Workbooks
This Workbook supplements its companion document The 'Consumerization' of Information Technology. It is a working document that contains more detailed and time/place-specific information to assist those interested in exploring and experimenting with consumerized technologies and public infrastructure. Its intended use is as an outline and a record over time as resources and knowledge are accumulated and applied in piloting activities.
Clients should also review the Mobility Strategy Workbook that accompanies our report on Developing a Mobility Strategy: Preparing for the Next Discontinuous Change.
See event: Is Corporate IT Obsolete? (26 May 2004)
- Consumerization and Public Infrastructure
26 May 04 | Presentation
Mobility technologies are just one example of consumerization. Taking a step back during this session, we will look at the broader phenomenon. Traditionally, many technologies started out being developed for, used and owned only by business, not by individuals – with few technologies being adopted by consumers. The trend to consumerization creates economies of scale and robustness that overshadow any that business can accomplish with traditional ‘private infrastructure’.
During this session, we look at a number of examples in which enterprises have experimented with, or adopted, consumerized technologies and public infrastructure to meet enterprise needs, resulting in both cost savings and increased capability.
See event: Is Corporate IT Obsolete? (26 May 2004) - The mobile revolution
5 May 04 | Journal Articles
The mobile phone is now an integrated part of both personal and – to a slightly lesser extent – business life.
In Japan, they speak of the “ketai” or mobile phone culture. On trains in Tokyo you can observe as many as half of the commuters using their mobile phones, and not just for talking.
They play games, do email, listen to music or browse the web.
- Mobile technology – no longer just playthings
5 May 04 | Journal Articles
In our report on Developing a Mobility Strategy, we highlighted the potential for mobile technology to transform the workplace, and the nature of work itself. Five years on, that potential is being realised, and mobile technologies have become an indispensable part of our work and our lives.
But the variation in deployment and innovation from one company to another is enormous, and in some cases, the use of mobile technology is more advanced in developing countries than in the major industrialised nations.
- Advanced Use of Mobile Technologies in Asia
29 Jan 04 | Presentation
In this web conference, we review how applications and uses have developed over the last three years at a time when mobile phone usage in Japan has jumped to over 77 million, of which over 64 million are signed up for mobile Internet access.
We examine the evolution of the infrastructure, including why 3G has just over half a million subscribers while a near 3G technology (CDMA 1x RTT) has over 8 million. And we will look at the ways businesses are taking advantage of this new consumer-driven infrastructure.
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- Assuring Information Security in Mobile Business
11 Nov 03 | Presentation
Events of the past few months have amply illustrated our vulnerability and powerlessness against ever more sophisticated cyberattacks.
For the first time, we have seen a co-ordinated worm attack against one organisation (Microsoft), a phenomenon predicted by us in 2001 at the forerunner to this Information Security Focus Group.
Clearly, our current ´fortress and policy´ approach is inadequate and ineffective, and the advent of mobile and wireless technologies are only going to expose more inadequacies.
Read full event details.