same
ingredients.Achieving the SOE reality requires new levels of innovation to
orchestrate:â?˘Software and data as servicesâ?˘Hardware as virtualized
resourcesâ?˘Autonomic data sourcesâ?˘Occasionally Connected Usageâ?˘And
Services that cross firewallsBy 2008, over four-fifths of mobile knowledge
workers will have access to wireless e-mail (0.6probability). (Gartner)By
2012, three-quarters of all knowledge workers will be evaluated in part on
how fast theyrespond to e-mails (0.6 probability). (Gartner)Productivity -
53 minutes per day regained through mobile email (RIM/IPSOS research)For
most organizations, e-mail has both put an end to the days of predictable
workflow andbecome a mission-critical application. The speed at which
staff respond to e-mails has a directimpact on an organizations' success,
now that on average, a tenth of the messages that arrive each day need
immediate action.Wireless access to e-mail, which is appearing in most
parts of the world, should help them cope.The chief audience for this
technology are those workers who are spending more and more time far from
their main places of work. Adoption of wireless e-mail is growing fast,
aided by the appeal of Research in Motion's BlackBerry handsets.Workers
with wireless access to e-mail can reduce their e-mail backlog by 80
percent or more, as they have more time to delete spam and prioritize
messages that need prompt attention. More importantly they can cut their
response times in half.Implications Wider availability of wireless e-mail
will raise expectations for "real time" responses.A person's speed of
response to e-mail is easily measured, many firms will include it among
staff evaluation criteria and whether it's appropriate or not.This will
force workers to greatly reduce, or even eliminate, their use of automated
"out of office" replies, and to respond promptly even outside normal
working hours and during holidays.Vacations will turn from periods where
they don't work into periods where they simply do less work than
usual.Consequently, the adverse effects of overwork will multiply:
illnesses, divorces and other kinds of disruption to family life will
sadly become all too common There will be more legal battles too, when
workers will claim to have suffered from their employer's policy toward
e-mail and especially as it's likely that many firms will break laws
passed to protect workers.Assuming spam is brought gradually under control
and that filters shield people from unwanted communications, vital
messages are likely to account for 40 percent of a knowledge worker's
daily e-mail burden by 2007.That's a welcome rise in one respect. But
missing a vital message will be more likely to harm your career. The
deployment of wireless technologies is further evidenced by the growing
proportion of the workforce that is expected to become mobile during the
next five years. Gartner Dataquest's definition of a mobile worker covers
employees working away from their desks for more than eight hours per week
on average.Interestingly, the trend in Australia and South Korea is not
that of a mass exodus of staff out of the office during the next five
years, but more of a steady increase in workforce mobility.Just over one
quarter of the Australian workforce will be mobile in five years' time (up
from 18 percent today) compared with South Korea, where one-third of staff
will be mobile in 2008, up from 15 percent today. We suspect the
differences between the two markets are attributable to a variety of
factors including geographical and cultural issues, network coverage and
workplace considerationssuch as management practices and staff oversight.I
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Steve Rastall - MD igroup. Steve has many years mobileexperience, visit www.igroupltd.co.uk for more information.
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