From the category archives:

Value

Mobile Technology, Poverty and Development

Slightly off topic… but as I was catching up on some of my Google Reader reading I came across this post by Hannes over at the Mobile Banking Blog on Defeating Poverty.  Over the last year I have come across this topic perhaps hundreds of times.  Those of you who follow the mobile space beyond [...]

March 20, 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 →

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 →

Mobile Advertising and Productivity

How distracting will the ever increasing (or at least predicted) flood of mobile advertising affect our mobile workers?  I am not talking SMS here… I can probably count on one hand the number of times I was spammed.  I am talking during mobile web surfing?  Perhaps not that much of an issue now… but later?  [...]

December 10, 2008 Read the full article →

Enterprise Mobility on One Device

Is it possible to ‘do’ enterprise mobility today on only one device?  Are you doing it?  Should you be doing it? As we think about this for future posts take a look at Paul Golding’s lesson over at Wireless Wanders: DON’T BUILD A BUSINESS ON ONE DEVICE (or API) He adds (from the developer’s point [...]

December 4, 2008 Read the full article →

Like Minded Blogs #2

As we surf the blogosphere seeking interesting and valuable material on mobile strategy, enterprise mobility or just general tidbits on mobility (i.e. Mobile 2.0, mobile web, mobile advertising) we come across other interesting bloggers from time to time.   One important criteria for us is whether we believe the other site brings value to you as [...]

December 3, 2008 Read the full article →

iPhone and Enterprise Mobility

This post is not meant to be a thorough analysis of the iPhone in the enterprise.  I am sure that much has been written on that from both friends and foes of the iPhone.  Instead we would like you to comment on why the release of the iPhone has been good (and still is) for [...]

November 29, 2008 Read the full article →