Do mobile devices have a real purpose in the enterprise other than playing angry birds? How do you leverage consumer technology like the iPad to not only consume information, but to capture it as well. In this session, Dan will show you how customers are building out an enterprise framework with applications on the iPad and other mobile devices to capture data without ever creating paper.
The future needs addressing now. Technology is driving change at dog year rates (x7) see the future now and build competitive advantage, navigate the unknown with cybertreking
The Internet of Things: Designing for Magical Moments of TruthJoanna Peña-Bickley
Designing for magical moments of truth has never been more important with the rapid rate of growth of the internet of things. Radically simple design is what makes enchanting experiences.
Making Magic with IBM Watson - Designing Enchanting Experiences In The Cogni...Joanna Peña-Bickley
From Dick Tracy’s watch to Wonder Woman’s Bracelets to Bat Girls total recall and technopathy, fiction has a intriguing dialog with invention. This dialog and inspiration can serve designers and engineers alike when creating for brands in the cognitive era.
When we design customer and employee experiences for brands, we have an opportunity to supercharge a brand by empowering employees and customers with superhuman powers with IBM Watson. Watson is a self-learning system that uses data mining, pattern recognition and natural language processing to mimic the way our human brain works. With Watson in your arsenal of design tools we are able to outthink, outsmart and out do the competition in extraordinary ways.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
Most of my creations have been inspired by the belief that there is a unique dialog between fiction and invention. The comics of Trina Robbins, Wendy Pini, Louise Simonson, Charles Moulton, Arthur C. Clarke and the Classic Tales of the Brothers Grim have shaped my imagination and my quest to design enchanting experiences that use the Internet of Things (IoT) as a canvas, data as a paint and enduring stories to create unique customer experiences that go from science fiction to magical reality.
A talk on our role, as modern marketers and innovators, at the frontline of global change as every aspect of business, as we know it, undergoes a tectonic shift, from an industrial age to the next. The next evolution of human and machine, discovering how artificial intelligence can be used in so many different ways, from trading mundane tasks for quality moments in every industry, to understanding and connecting to our audiences and customers in unique and individual ways.
This upheaval in business creates an exciting opportunity of the proportions that made history’s most famous industrialists, just a century ago -- men, and even a few women, who understood the nature of change, saw the future and made it a reality. Back then, fortune was granted to an elite few. Today, disruption can easily come from the largest enterprise lab or a garage workshop in the burbs.
The stakes have never been higher, customer attention span is minimal, and the need to engage it and retain it, is greater than ever. Such times come round once in a century, if that, so I feel incredibly fortunate, as a woman of the 21st century and a post-digital player, to have a seat at the table of global reinvention of business and brands, and by definition, a hand forward thinkers shaping the future. When we bring together Data Scientists, Innovators, Advertisers, Marketers and Makers like me - United, we can redefine the metrics for success and then notion of what it means to be a post-digital industrialist in the cognitive era.
The Future of Retail is here. The entire world is a shopping platform and Retailers can no longer see digital and physical store as 2 different business models or even a different department in their organization. The digital and physical world has converged and the difference between winners and losers — are the companies and brands that are bringing digital behaviors into the physical world. This has had a domino effect on the entire industry. Digital behaviors in connected physical spaces are triggering Malls, Retailers and Municipalities to rethink their commercial spaces. Nomadic devices like mobile, connected cars, wearables and social platforms are increasingly playing a transformative role in business.
The future needs addressing now. Technology is driving change at dog year rates (x7) see the future now and build competitive advantage, navigate the unknown with cybertreking
The Internet of Things: Designing for Magical Moments of TruthJoanna Peña-Bickley
Designing for magical moments of truth has never been more important with the rapid rate of growth of the internet of things. Radically simple design is what makes enchanting experiences.
Making Magic with IBM Watson - Designing Enchanting Experiences In The Cogni...Joanna Peña-Bickley
From Dick Tracy’s watch to Wonder Woman’s Bracelets to Bat Girls total recall and technopathy, fiction has a intriguing dialog with invention. This dialog and inspiration can serve designers and engineers alike when creating for brands in the cognitive era.
When we design customer and employee experiences for brands, we have an opportunity to supercharge a brand by empowering employees and customers with superhuman powers with IBM Watson. Watson is a self-learning system that uses data mining, pattern recognition and natural language processing to mimic the way our human brain works. With Watson in your arsenal of design tools we are able to outthink, outsmart and out do the competition in extraordinary ways.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
Most of my creations have been inspired by the belief that there is a unique dialog between fiction and invention. The comics of Trina Robbins, Wendy Pini, Louise Simonson, Charles Moulton, Arthur C. Clarke and the Classic Tales of the Brothers Grim have shaped my imagination and my quest to design enchanting experiences that use the Internet of Things (IoT) as a canvas, data as a paint and enduring stories to create unique customer experiences that go from science fiction to magical reality.
A talk on our role, as modern marketers and innovators, at the frontline of global change as every aspect of business, as we know it, undergoes a tectonic shift, from an industrial age to the next. The next evolution of human and machine, discovering how artificial intelligence can be used in so many different ways, from trading mundane tasks for quality moments in every industry, to understanding and connecting to our audiences and customers in unique and individual ways.
This upheaval in business creates an exciting opportunity of the proportions that made history’s most famous industrialists, just a century ago -- men, and even a few women, who understood the nature of change, saw the future and made it a reality. Back then, fortune was granted to an elite few. Today, disruption can easily come from the largest enterprise lab or a garage workshop in the burbs.
The stakes have never been higher, customer attention span is minimal, and the need to engage it and retain it, is greater than ever. Such times come round once in a century, if that, so I feel incredibly fortunate, as a woman of the 21st century and a post-digital player, to have a seat at the table of global reinvention of business and brands, and by definition, a hand forward thinkers shaping the future. When we bring together Data Scientists, Innovators, Advertisers, Marketers and Makers like me - United, we can redefine the metrics for success and then notion of what it means to be a post-digital industrialist in the cognitive era.
The Future of Retail is here. The entire world is a shopping platform and Retailers can no longer see digital and physical store as 2 different business models or even a different department in their organization. The digital and physical world has converged and the difference between winners and losers — are the companies and brands that are bringing digital behaviors into the physical world. This has had a domino effect on the entire industry. Digital behaviors in connected physical spaces are triggering Malls, Retailers and Municipalities to rethink their commercial spaces. Nomadic devices like mobile, connected cars, wearables and social platforms are increasingly playing a transformative role in business.
12 Startup Lessons from Steve Jobs Taught Guy KawasakiRicky Haryadi
The lessons that Guy Kawasaki learned from Steve Jobs when he's building his startup company, Apple. Great lessons, great examples for entrepreneurs, especially who are trying to build a new business in technology industry!
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Find me on:
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ricky_haryadi
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/rickyharyadi
Presenting a) Mega Trends in the business world that affect small and medium-sized enterprises, b) the op ten technologies that promote creative disruption, and c) how to proceed in implementing some of them.
What does it take to engage employees and customers?John Mancini
A discussion of 1) how the nature of work is changing due to massive technology change; 2) why employee and customer engagement needs to be a key strategy in leveraging this technology change; and 3) why organizations need to take seriously the work assumptions of the Facebook generation and radically more demanding expectations of customers.
Leave IT Alone – The Vast Value of Self-ServiceDATAVERSITY
As more and more business roles are expected to be data-driven, the demand for data is growing exponentially. The only way businesses can scale data-driven decision-making is with self-service. But ungoverned self-service access to data doesn't necessarily lead to better decisions. So the critical question for businesses is how to enable analysts and casual business users to self-serve data in a meaningful and trustworthy way. Check out this episode of Deep Dive to find out! Host Eric Kavanagh will share insights about best practices and great ideas in the field of self-service BI. He'll be joined by Kenny Cunanan of Looker, who will explain how practical guard rails can keep users on track, while enabling them to explore data in ways that spark ideas and lead to better decisions.
From business strategy to execution, technology is woven into the fabric of how companies do business today. How well do you understand and leverage technology in your day to day operations? That’s your Digital IQ, and it’s essential to improving your job performance, enhance your role within your company and extract value from the technology in which your company invests. In this session, you’ll not only learn about 2015’s biggest business tech trends, you’ll be introduced to tools that will instantly boost your digital IQ (and impress your boss).
Learner Objectives:
1. Understand the newest business technology terms and trends.
2. Identify personal learning gaps and potential solutions.
3. Discover apps and web-based solutions for office inefficiencies.
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From goatskin to clouds - how IT works in ParliamentRachel Miller
This is a presentation given by Joan Miller, Director of Parliamentary ICT at Cloud Expo conference in January 2012. Joan retired from the UK's Parliament in 2014 after joining in 2005 to set up PICT and establish a world class IT service. Throughout her nine years there she was instrumental in modernising IT and creating environments for all forms of data. (Am proud to call her my mother-in-law).
10 things that will change the online landscapeBart De Waele
10 things that will change the online landscape in 2012 - and how you can use them to improve your digital marketing.
Presentation for Digital Marketing First.
12 Startup Lessons from Steve Jobs Taught Guy KawasakiRicky Haryadi
The lessons that Guy Kawasaki learned from Steve Jobs when he's building his startup company, Apple. Great lessons, great examples for entrepreneurs, especially who are trying to build a new business in technology industry!
_______________________________
Find me on:
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ricky_haryadi
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/rickyharyadi
Presenting a) Mega Trends in the business world that affect small and medium-sized enterprises, b) the op ten technologies that promote creative disruption, and c) how to proceed in implementing some of them.
What does it take to engage employees and customers?John Mancini
A discussion of 1) how the nature of work is changing due to massive technology change; 2) why employee and customer engagement needs to be a key strategy in leveraging this technology change; and 3) why organizations need to take seriously the work assumptions of the Facebook generation and radically more demanding expectations of customers.
Leave IT Alone – The Vast Value of Self-ServiceDATAVERSITY
As more and more business roles are expected to be data-driven, the demand for data is growing exponentially. The only way businesses can scale data-driven decision-making is with self-service. But ungoverned self-service access to data doesn't necessarily lead to better decisions. So the critical question for businesses is how to enable analysts and casual business users to self-serve data in a meaningful and trustworthy way. Check out this episode of Deep Dive to find out! Host Eric Kavanagh will share insights about best practices and great ideas in the field of self-service BI. He'll be joined by Kenny Cunanan of Looker, who will explain how practical guard rails can keep users on track, while enabling them to explore data in ways that spark ideas and lead to better decisions.
From business strategy to execution, technology is woven into the fabric of how companies do business today. How well do you understand and leverage technology in your day to day operations? That’s your Digital IQ, and it’s essential to improving your job performance, enhance your role within your company and extract value from the technology in which your company invests. In this session, you’ll not only learn about 2015’s biggest business tech trends, you’ll be introduced to tools that will instantly boost your digital IQ (and impress your boss).
Learner Objectives:
1. Understand the newest business technology terms and trends.
2. Identify personal learning gaps and potential solutions.
3. Discover apps and web-based solutions for office inefficiencies.
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From goatskin to clouds - how IT works in ParliamentRachel Miller
This is a presentation given by Joan Miller, Director of Parliamentary ICT at Cloud Expo conference in January 2012. Joan retired from the UK's Parliament in 2014 after joining in 2005 to set up PICT and establish a world class IT service. Throughout her nine years there she was instrumental in modernising IT and creating environments for all forms of data. (Am proud to call her my mother-in-law).
10 things that will change the online landscapeBart De Waele
10 things that will change the online landscape in 2012 - and how you can use them to improve your digital marketing.
Presentation for Digital Marketing First.
Opportunities and Pitfalls of Prototyping with Artificial Intelligence berl...DAIN Studios
How to build new products and services that respond intelligently to users and their contexts? When does it make sense to use AI in service design? DAIN Studios talks about Data Driven Design and the use of AI in design.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
27. Six Flags – Hit it out of the park
“Compared to email, Box has
reduced the time we spend
searching for and sending material
by 50%. And everybody – both our
internal teams and external
vendors – finds it exceptionally
simple to use.”
Sean Andersen
Director, Interactive Services
Six Flags Entertainment
#AIIM12
What do people use mobile devices for? – other than walking down the hall pretending you are on the phone Leverage- aka how you get your boss to buy you toys
Hi I’m Daniel O’Leary. From my Aiim Bio: Daniel O'Leary is the Director of Inside Sales for CloudShare. CloudShare is a cloud computing company that makes it easy to build, manage and share any business application on-demand, in the cloud. CloudShare provides remote access to virtual machines - all you need is a web browser. You can connect instantly to environments for development, testing, training, and demos. He is an AIIM Ambassador, Distinguished Service Award winner, and an active member of the AIIM PAC. You can follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/danieloleary . Yes, I cut out my wife to make room for the monkey.
Source www.cloudshare.com . I’ve had the joy of working on many sides of the cloud and content management industries. Most of my experience comes from living and working in Silicon Valley, and consulting with companies around the world.
Source http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/18/tablet-design-before-after-the-ipad/ As if there was any doubt that Apple is the innovator here, here’s an amusing graphic showing the design of tablets before and after the launch of the iPad. In 2010, the iPad led a fundamental shift in how people use technology. I remember the first time I saw it, my thought was “I already have a smartphone, laptop, and desktop, why do I need an iPad?”. That was of course until I used it. That changed everything.
111% increase in iPad sales year over year. , source apple.com iPad sales are staggering, with Apple reporting that “the new iPad” already passed 1 million preorders, and at the time of this writing the wait to purchase is expected to be 2-3 weeks. To date, over 55 million iPads have been sold. In it’s wake, Apple has left HP, Palm, and Blackberry reeling.
Box 2010 to 2011 mobile, 49% iPhone, 26% iPad, 3% android tablet . But 8x growth for android phones YOY Forecasting 10x Android growth in tablets http://blog.box.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Mobile_Data_Report_3.2.png Source http://web20edu.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/why-i-am-considering-divorce-from-android/ One of the reasons Android tablets have not been as accepted is the fragmentation of the Android space. Now that Ice Cream Sandwich is available and the enterprise tools are ready, more users might embrace Android tablets. The lead will have to come from consumers, for from a compelling cost differentiator versus the iPad, for example the Amazon Kindle.
Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8 Biggest change in Windows since Win 95, even the start button is gone Arm and x86. No start menu, unifying tablets and computers. Will it be vista all over again? Consumer preview released on March 1 st , so far the results are positive Leverage the massive amount of Windows developers, and embrace touch screen devices Show of hands, how many are planning on purchasing it?
Source www.rovio.com One of the things I hear from disgruntled IT admins is that if they purchase devices or allow employees to use them, all they will do is play Angry Birds and chat on Facebook. This argument is like saying I gave my employees a computer and all they do is play solitaire, or I gave them email and all they do is send jokes. It’s a fallacy. If users are having fun and engaged, expect tools to be used in a variety of ways, that’s the point. Users aren’t robots. @ berkun : "An #iPhone today has more computing power than NASA did in 1969. They put a man on the moon, and we throw birds at pigs"
Examples: Dropbox and Box for file management LincDoc Mobile for electronic forms GoToMeeting, WebEx Yammer, Salesforce Chatter, Jive VMWare View for iPad, CloudShare DocuSign Ink for digital signatures SharePlus for Microsoft SharePoint access Source iTunes screenshot The iPad is becoming the standard for a mobile work force. Look no further than an airplane or a train to see how many people are hard at work using the devices. Having integrated wifi and 3g / 4g makes this mobile reality possible.
It’s often a situation of “it’s easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.” – this often applies to how people bring their own devices into the enterprise. This bottom up approach works for many organizations, and often they are coming in via the C level. The way to drive adoption and ROI is to make the tools not only easy to use, but fun. How many of you ever received formal training on how to use Facebook? Source- friend’s personal photo
“ As for tablets , there simply aren’t any good Windows-based choices, so the iPad is a natural pick. But Windows 8 tablets are on the way, and there will be no need for iPads in the enterprise.” Preston Gralla, Computerworld, 13 Feb 2012 Is a tablet always the best tool for the job? Almost always, no. But it does work as a Swiss army knife as a great tool for a variety of situation. Source- http://firealarmmarketing.com/2010/12/02/buggy-whips-or-branches/
The biggest issue for IT managers when it comes to deploying the iPad, according to Freimark, is ceding control “ IT workers have been trained to want to control systems. There is a limited amount of control you can have on the iPad.” For example, when you connect an iPad to a Microsoft Exchange server account and ActiveSync, an IT manager can remotely wipe the device, enforce passcode policies to add security and turn off the camera. Those important basics, which have been available since the iPad’s debut, help managers sleep easier. If a work-issued iPad full of sensitive data goes missing, the IT department can at least completely erase the thing. Source http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-9700656-help.php
Source http://mashable.com/2012/02/26/ipad-3-who-will-buy/ Enable access to email, social networking, CRM, customer data, help desk tickets, and other tools. The benefit here is also the biggest drawback, you can work virtually anywhere, at anytime. Customers and employers have a perception that you are always connected which can create social strain. If you do get hit by techno stress from time to time, make sure you take time to unplug at least once a week for a few hours.
Source http://mashable.com/2012/02/26/ipad-3-who-will-buy/ “ Is it true you spend more time using your iPad than you do working” – I actually asked my wife this question. This changes everything, from how we as knowledge workers get things done, to how products and services get delivered in a digital economy.
Source- personal photo. The dog’s name is Henry, and yes he is this cute. Even the most sophisticated organizations often resort to gluing and taping receipts to letter paper, and filling out spreadsheets to reimburse employee expenses. The process can be challenging, even when you have a puppy helping.
Source expensify.com Expensify does "expense reports that don't suck!" by importing expenses and receipts from credit cards and mobile phones, submitting expense reports through email, and reimbursing everything online with QuickBooks and Direct Deposit. Expensify's unique design suits everybody from individuals tracking their personal finances to companies with a thousand employees, and everywhere in between such as churches, non-profits, and small businesses worldwide. Expensify is free for individuals and small businesses, with premium upgrades available for receipt scanning and shared expense policies. By the numbers Founded in 2008 Used by over 90,000 organizations and 650K individuals Processing almost 10K receipts and $2M in expense reports every day
Source expensify.com Totally amazing app- connects directly to your personal bank information and credit cards, and matches data from receipts and transactions to automatically fill out your expense report. It can also be tied into GL codes for larger organizations. For any receipts over $75, you should take a picture to upload and attach the original. For me my reports can be done in minutes instead of hours. One of my friends returned from a 3 week trip to Tel Aviv, and he used this app to not only capture all the data, but handle the conversion into $USD.
Source reddit.com, yes that is a bread bag in her hair. Signed documents have historically played a vital role in how business transactions get done. 10 years ago it would have been inconceivable for you to sign a contract, open a bank account, file your taxes, or complete an agreement without resorting to paper. But think for a minute, when was the last time you stopped to print out an order form when shopping online? DocuSign is not the only tool, but it is certainly popular with over 13 million users in 50 countries.
Source docusign.com “ Need to sign a permission slip for your child’s school? An estimate from the plumber? No problem. You no longer have to waste time printing, scanning, faxing, or mailing. Simply open your email attachment with DocuSign Ink, sign it, and send. It’s that easy” DocuSign Ink allows you to open any document, sign your name, fill in forms, and email it back anywhere in the world without printing, faxing, or mailing—all 100% secure. – it’s amazing for people on the go to complete transactions and do transactional work without stopping to find a business center.
DocuSign Ink is for signing document, and DocuSign is for sending documents to be signed. One of the cool things about Ink is that it can use your actual signature, or a prebuilt one. Either way, the entire process is easy.
Now that storage space is cheaper than toilet paper, what do you do? How do you handle things like versioning, backups, sharing, collaboration, and do it all securely and on the go? Case study- http://www.box.com/resources/case-studies/six-flags/ The goal was to share content without having to use email.
They got tired of emailing files, and much of their work is in the field.
Image and content source http://www.americanoutcomes.com/ American Outcomes Management (AOM) is a physician-owned provider of in-home IV (intra-venous) therapy and infusion services seeking to continue to improve its industry-leading level of patient care. Field nurses and company employees were using a paper-based process for its primary account management tool, the multi-page, 3-ply Patient Visit Record form. Information collected is vital to patient medical charts, pharmacists, insurance companies, drug labs and company billing and payroll departments.
Use of this form involved manually collecting data from patients in the field, which triggered an enterprise-wide process of faxing, scanning, e-mailing and physical filing. Completed forms, often up to 50/day, were routed through several stakeholders, including billing and clinical staff. This led to illegible handwriting, lost/confused pages, duplicate versions, redundant tasks and the need to excessively verify patient information. Source- patient intake form
Patient Visit Record form approval time decreased from weeks to hours LD-Mobile time stamps patient vital sign recordings and any instance of eForm use Patient Visit Record and data automatically dropped into CRM system workflow Eliminated challenges to workflow from illegible handwriting because of faxing and scanning All patient data automatically input to electronic medical chart Nurse visit information time stamped to authenticate relative to medical records, human resources and payroll No more lost forms or confused pages Entire billing process simplified, staff and patient billing completed rapidly Substantial time savings in general workflow from reduction in manual handling, correcting and verifying information Electronic signatures now used for Consent to Services form, bolstering risk management efforts Company brand enhanced in marketplace through embrace of mobile business Eliminated time drag of multiple people handling a single form Source – application screenshot
Source- Application screenshot
Kirk Graham, IT Director American Outcomes Management: “ LincDoc has become the primary “Linc” between our patients, data, and employees. LincDoc allowed us to turn our familiar paper forms into mobile e-forms increasing our efficiency, eliminating human error, and speeding up our billing processes, all while saving time, money, and best of all, being green.” “So far everyone is blown away by the system, I can’t keep up with all of the forms they want created”. Image source- http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianacare/6303695172/