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Negotiations become more challenging during economic hard times.
As you may have noticed, the current economic environment is causing people to behave differently. This stressful climate has likely changed the tenor of your negotiations by either making it easier for you to get what you want or making it near impossible to achieve your goals.
The importance of the mobile platform as a tool in the arsenal of modern organizations is undeniable. What is less clear is how firms should incorporate the potential of mobile technologies into their IT and process infrastructure. That's the challenge our authors in this installment will help you meet in your own organization.
To effectively compete in a global economy, today's organizations need to be connected to their employees, suppliers, and customers from anywhere and at any time. Mobile technologies support these connectivity needs and enable companies to access their data and applications remotely.
Mobile technologies create opportunities for an enterprise to be flexible and dynamic in an agile business world.1 These opportunities are primarily resulting from a creative and strategic application of information and communications technologies (ICT). The role of ICT in business has gone beyond merely providing data and information to businesses and has become a core business initiator that few could have imagined.
Last month's installment of CBR took us into unchartered territory. This month we get back to what we do best: we evaluate an emerging or evolving trend and benchmark it through a survey of our readership. The focus in this issue is the mobile platform. Mobile technology, its applications, and the services that are delivered over the wireless channel continue to evolve.
SURVEY DEMOGRAPHICS
The waves of the business cycle are becoming ripples. The recent American combination of minimal inflation and very low unemployment may not be an aberration, but the beginning of a new worldwide trend. Smarter government policy, globalization, changes in employment, advances in information technology, and emerging markets all cushion shocks and dampen the familiar boom and bust.