Tuesday 30 July 2013
“You’ve
to spend money to make money” – In today’s fiercely competitive market, this line
may not go well, but this old saying goes perfectly for the enterprise mobility.
However, still there are many businesses or enterprises who are making excuses
when it comes to invest in the enterprise mobility service or integration of
mobility solutions within their organization.
The
main problem is legacy. The evolution of mobile devices has seen as a cost of
doing business, not as a mean of transforming the way organizations carrying
their business. At the end, mobile phones were simply allowing employees within
an organization to make calls not more than that. But with the advancement in
the mobile technology, enterprise mobility has become the new IT for the
enterprises by allowing employees to access all their work and personal data
anytime, anywhere and from any device at their fingertips. Moreover, Gartner
has identified mobility as one of the major emerging trends that will place
enterprises for competitive advantage.
While
the need of reducing investment in non-performing sector, there are other
organizations who are focusing more on increasing your mobility spend.
Moreover, IDC (International Data Corporation) predicted that almost 37% of the
world’s labor force or approximately 1.3 billion employees will identify as
“Mobile Workers” by 2015. Such an immense growth of the mobility has opened new
doors of opportunity for the businesses to increase their productivity. But how
enterprises can drive more growth and more revenue by increasing their
investment on enterprise mobility? Here’re a few simple ways.
Mobilize
work applications to improve workflow and overall productivity. Investing more
time and money in the off-the-shelf apps will help you fill the gap between IT
resources within your organization in order to help you create your own
enterprise apps. You should always think larger than life. Therefore, rather
than using conventional mobile email, try to mobilize the CRM, field force and
travel and expense management applications. It will empower the employees to
work remotely at their convenience.
The
second thing you have to do is to incorporate tools beyond the concept of
Smartphone. Of course, Smartphones are helping a lot improving the
productivity. Don’t believe? According to the Mobile Workforce Report study,
the average mobile-enabled employee input additional eight hours per week.
However, there is still a room for improvement. Moreover, increasing mobility
with tools like tablets, air cards and MiFi you can easily eliminate the
productivity issues.
You
should try to mobilize the workforce. Of course, it is beneficial to provide
your sales reps and marketing team with Smartphones. But what about rest of the
functions within an organization? It is must that enterprises should push the
mobility within the organization in order help employees interact and transact
with their business in real time while creating more efficiency and remove
unwanted delays in communication.
