From the category archives:

Mobile Worker

Location Based Services (LBS) will double in 2009

From Mobile Monday news page: Worldwide consumer location-based services (LBS) subscribers and revenue are on pace to double in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. Despite an expected 4 per cent decrease in mobile device sales, LBS subscribers are forecast to grow from 41.0 million in 2008 to 95.7 million in 2009 while revenue is anticipated [...]

July 7, 2009 Read the full article →

Collection of tiny mobile apps for your iPhone (or my Personalized Enterprise Gateway)

New to me … but probably old to you (remember I don’t use an iPhone in everyday life).  It took me back to some of the projects I have worked on before and the ever present need of providing relevant information to our mobile users/workers. So today I bumped into Leaflets – Leaflets are small, [...]

June 30, 2009 Read the full article →

Moving Beyond Wireless Enablement (Canada)

SAP sponsored an IDC White Paper available for download here. This report analyzes Canadian organizations’ readiness to incorporate mobility into their enterprise application strategy.  IDC’s data on current and future adoption of mobile solutions indicates that the majority of organizations have wirelessly enabled their workforce, but have not yet begun to embrace mobilization. The distinction [...]

May 22, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy Basics

**Please note -Visionaries, futurists and extraordinary thinkers need not read this.  But if you are like the author… you probably should.** One of the first steps in drafting your mobile strategy is to determine where you need to be.  This may sound basic but I only mention it because many times I have seen people [...]

February 26, 2009 Read the full article →

Twitter’s Mobile Strategy

Reading about Twitter’s new hire Kevin Thau (new Director of Mobile Business Development) reminds me that we still owe you several series previously mentioned here which you have not seen.  They are on their way (but  currently stuck as WIP somewhere between our brains and our keyboards).  Why am I bringing this up?  Well, one [...]

January 16, 2009 Read the full article →

WebOS, Palm Pre and Enterprise Mobility

Some of the big news coming out of CES (Day 1) is the dual Palm announcements of a new operating system (WebOS) and new hardware (Palm Pre).   So this now gives us another platform to consider as consumers, but what are the Enterprise implications of this announcement?  Does it really change anything for us? At [...]

January 9, 2009 Read the full article →

Clinical Care and Mobile Technology

Just posted on this topic at our sister site Virtuate. To save you time this is my quick conclusion: “… mobile devices are still being used by physicians as a personal productivity tool and are not  integrated into care giving processes to the extent that real and transformational value have been achieved.” Which is the [...]

January 7, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Policies

Regardless of the name you use, mobile policies are both needed and lacking in the enterprise.  Over the last few years many organizations have begun piecing together policies around the use of mobile technologies and the behaviours of users when mobile.  In a previous life I have written and spent quite some time thinking about [...]

January 6, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Phone Use in Hospitals

As stated here before, healthcare represents an enormous opportunity for mobility. Healthcare workers (on and off campus) are extremely mobile and the returns are also enormous:  from chronic disease management, to critical care, to home health care, to eprescribing to electronic medical records the variety of uses for mobile technology in healthcare do not only [...]

January 6, 2009 Read the full article →

Social Media and Enterprise Mobility … continued

We wanted to draw your attention to this post by Hutch Carpenter about IBM and Intel releasing social media guidelines for their employees.   This adds to our discussion from last week on Enterprise Mobility and Social Networks… unfortunately our requests for feedback from folks in the industry seemed to have gone unnoticed (although we did [...]

December 16, 2008 Read the full article →