Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Yankee Group
Published: July 2007
Product Code: R388-2431Description Wireless wide-area devices will enable small and large businesses to function in a more ubiquitously connected
setting. But getting to the connected world requires four macroenvironment changes:
- Cultural mores must change. Venue-specific usage of technology as well as the way we work in the
office and home must change.
- Employee lifestyles must change. Work and home lifestyle balances must shift to allow more
dynamic productivity gains.
- Technology must advance. IT, applications and communications must converge to enable unified
platforms with consistent UIs for end users.
- An IT department of one must develop. IT must become the facilitator of information for end users
who are able to personalize their information and access to it.
Businesses will no longer face the standard trade-offs between productivity enhancement and lifestyle choices;
technologies such as EV-DO and HSDPA will foster both an increase in employee productivity and more easily
balanced work and personal lives.Table of Contents - I. Introduction
- II. Impediments to and the Naissance of Ubiquitous Connectivity
- III. Wireless Wide-Area Devices Facilitate Connectivity
- IV. Implications of EV-DO on the Small Business Employee
- V. Conclusions and Recommendations
- Recommendations for SMBs
- VI. Further Reading
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