productivity

How Smart is your Smartphone?

How smart is your Smartphone? No… but really. How smart is it? As smart as the applications? As smart as the user? As smart as the designers? Or does it depend on something else?

March 19, 2011 Read the full article →

How you view your employees and their knowledge will determine the success of your implementation…

‘Economists, said John Maynard Keynes, should think of themselves as humble specialists, on a par with dentists. But his advice has gone unheeded. Over the past 50 years, economics and its jargon have penetrated every corner of human life. Decisions to marry and inject heroin alike are explained in terms of utility maximisation. Doctors, priests [...]

February 26, 2010 Read the full article →

Mobile Becomes A Social Media Lifeline

Beautiful Sunday morning here in Toronto (Mississauga to be precise). As I catch up on reading and wait for the family to wake up before we head to church I thought I would share this post from Harvard Business. David Armano writes a Conversation Starter on the Six Social Media Trends for 2010… and these [...]

November 8, 2009 Read the full article →

Making Sense of Mobile Application Development

My plan was to compile all the excellent feedback received here and in other places on the debate whether it is best to develop mobile applications for the browser or native to the device (platform). I gave you a glimpse into my preference a few weeks ago with the teaser called - Mobile Application Development: [...]

September 29, 2009 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy and the iPod Touch

I was just reading over at FierceWireless Lynette Luna’s comments on the expectation that the iPod Touch will be an important part of Apple’s earnings report to be released tomorrow. The reason, Ms. Luna writes is because, The iPod touch offers a pretty good alternative for those who don’t want to be tied down to AT&T [...]

July 20, 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 →

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 →

Context Changes Everything

As I left work yesterday in extremely cold temperatures last night I could not ignore the very silly hat the gentleman walking ahead of me was wearing. Although silly, I guarantee you he was probably much warmer than I was. Context you see changes our behaviours. In fact I would go even further and state [...]

January 15, 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 →