Q: What are the main benefits your organization hopes to attain from using mobile devices and applications?
According to Curt Hall, though increased worker productivity has been sought after for decades, the Great Recession has led organizations increasingly to apply technology in pursuit of this goal. "Today's mobile technologies allow employees to not only work from wherever they are, but also to perform their jobs more efficiently. For example, there are now mobile apps designed for gathering and providing managers with employee profile information; facilitating employee training and education (e.g., videos and interactive publications that can be easily viewed by employees on tablets and other mobile devices and readily updated by management and other stakeholders); and for assisting HR with employee searches and hiring processes. Moreover, mobile technologies also make it possible for companies to (practically) implement new applications that automate formally labor-intensive tasks. For example, in the healthcare industry, we are now seeing mobile phone technologies used for the remote monitoring of patients outside of healthcare facilities."
* Excerpted from "Mobile in the Enterprise: Part I -- Device Adoption Practices, Benefits, and Barriers" (
), Data Insight & Social BI Executive Update, Vol. 12 No. 20.