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Mobile Computing: Strong Correlation Between High Productivity and Strong Mobile Strategies

By Dick Weisinger

Organizations that deploy mobile tend to be organizations that show the most marked improvements in productivity, according to a report by IBM.  Organizations with strong mobile strategies tend to excel in the areas of analytics, speed, integration and security.

Findings from the report include:

  • 90 percent of organizations either plan to maintain or increase their current spending for mobile technology
  • More than half of organizations say that the use of mobile technology increased their employee productivity by more than 10 percent
  • 73 percent of business leaders say that they’ve realized considerable returns by deploying mobile

IBM’s Kevin Custis said “it is far too limiting to define mobility simply as a device or a channel for transactions.  The organizations that come out ahead will be the ones that prioritize mobile and redefine its use to drive a new set of business expectations and user experiences.”

Only 14 percent of organizations have been identified as having strong mobile strategies.  Challenges that make adoption of mobile difficult include:

  • Integrating mobile apps with existing systems (54 percent)
  • Implementing end-to-end mobile security solutions for devices and apps (53 percent)
  • Unable to react to and quickly adopt new mobile technologies (51 percent)

 

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