Four customer case-studies that demonstrate the merits of alternative strategies for ensuring the success of your mobile initiatives:
• delivering mass appeal mobile apps, or,
• rolling out high-value, mobile business services
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Two Strategies for Going Mobile: Which One is for You?
1. Two Strategies to Drive Mobile Initiatives
WHICH ONE IS FOR YOU?
MASS APPEAL
MOBILE
APPLICATIONS
BUSINESS-SPECIFIC
MOBILE SERVICES
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3. Second tier
of value
Finding the Second Tier of Value
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Email Calendar Contacts
First tier
of value
Content Creation
• Mobile documents
• Communications
• Graphics/Video
Source: Roth, C., How to Improve Business Outcomes by Mobilizing Productivity Work, Gartner Research, PCC Summit, LA, May 2014
Content Review
• PDF annotation
• Highlighting
• Commenting
High Value Content Consumption
• Offline
• Secure
• Executive-level or field audience
8. Finance
Usage
• Secure access to important
documentation
• Real-time collaboration
around documents
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Company / Customer Typical User
• Account manager
The Business Value
• Avoid data leakage through
use of unsanctioned
storage (Dropbox, iCloud,
etc.)
• Reduce time for
negotiations
• Prevent costly mistakesReasons for Adoption
• Intuitive single screen experience
• Fully supports business taxonomy
• Platform/MDM agnostic – all major vendors and multiple strategies supported
• View/edit/annotate Office and PDF documents
9. Support multiple security
models
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View, edit and follow
business related criteria -
metadata
View and edit Office
documents using Office
Online apps
Finance
Secure Collaboration - Key Capabilities
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14. Transportation
Usage
• Access to emergency
contact lists
• Offline Access to
Emergency Documentation
• Access to updated
emergency ops procedures
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Representative Company Typical User
• Engineers
• Safety Personnel
• Railway crews
The Business Value
• Saves lives
• Mitigates environmental
disasters
• Enormous cost savings
Reasons for Adoption
• Reduces environmental impact (elimination of paper-based documentation)
• Ensures the latest versions of key documents are always handy
• Automatic pushing of documents to personnel prevents errors and confusion
15. Automation of pushing
latest versions to remote
workers can save lives and
reduce costly errors
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Vast reduction in paper-
based overhead
Full document and people
search allows emergency
workers to respond faster
to crises
Transportation
Offline Access to Emergency Documentation - Key Capabilities
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16. Automation of pushing
latest versions to remote
workers can save lives and
reduce costly errors
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Transportation
Offline Access to Emergency Documentation - Key Capabilities
1
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Vast reduction in paper-
based overhead
Transportation
Offline Access to Emergency Documentation - Key Capabilities
2
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Full document and people
search allows emergency
workers to respond faster
to crises
Transportation
Offline Access to Emergency Documentation - Key Capabilities
3
21. Project Management
Usage
• Ensure up-to-date project
documents
• Anywhere, real-time editing
of shared documents
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Company / Customer
• Any Company
Typical User
• Project / IT Manager
• PMO, Sales and Marketing,
Board members
• Senior Execs
The Business Value
• Reduce costly mistakes due
to incorrect information
• Accurate project
documentation (governance)
• Search and findability for
important information
(metadata)Reasons for Adoption
• It’s a no-brainer; there is no need to manually manage/retrieve documents
• Efficiently handle all project-related artifacts (documents, tasks, contacts, issues, etc.)
• Real-time access to latest information
22. Easy publishing of project-
related content
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Automated access to all
project-related content:
• Documents
• Calendars
• Tasks
• Announcements
Ensure workers have the
latest and greatest versions
Project Management
Document Standardization- Key Capabilities
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23. Easy publishing of project-
related content
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Project Management
Document Standardization- Key Capabilities
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27. Paperless Initiatives
Usage
• Share meeting notes
• Having latest copy of
minutes always on tap
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Company / Customer
• Any Company
Typical User
• Project Managers
• Execs
• Admins
The Business Value
• Reduces errors from
document chaos
• Accurate record of
proceedings (governance)
• Search / findability of
important information
(metadata)
• Positive environmental impact
(paper reduction)
Reasons for Adoption
• Eliminates the time needed to email notes to participants
• Much easier than previous paper-based methods
• Vastly improves findability/searchability/accessibily of notes
28. Easily find project-related
content like status,
updates, and action items
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Annotate documents,
diagrams, presentations ‘on
the fly’ while in a meeting
Tagging/classifying notes
means you can search/find
information across many
(similar) meeting notes and
summaries
Paperless Initiatives
Sharing Meeting Notes - Key Capabilities
1 2 3
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Tagging/classifying notes
means you can search/find
information across many
(similar) meeting notes and
summaries
Paperless Initiatives
Sharing Meeting Notes - Key Capabilities
3
Paperless Initiatives
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Tagging/classifying notes
means you can search/find
information across many
(similar) meeting notes and
summaries
Paperless Initiatives
Sharing Meeting Notes - Key Capabilities
3
Paperless Initiatives
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Notes de l'éditeur
At the recent Gartner PCC Summit in May, Gartner gave their view of the state of mobile initiatives. According to their findings, BYOD is yesterday’s news; the devices are out there. What business people at those companies have been able to get from those devices so far is email, calendaring and contacts. But that is not where the real business value is. Companies want to employ mobile devices to let their employees work anytime, anywhere. And that is what companies are now trying to figure out how to do.
The next steps? It’s what Gartner calls the “Second tier of value” – and a lot of it involves making better use of documents on the go; specifically –
Content creation – generate and edit work documents related to contract negotiations, project management, etc.
Content review – for contracts, projects, keep the daily business wheels in motion.
High-value content – for expensive employees, time is money; for emergency personnel, time means saving lives. So making high-value documents available to people when they need them is hugely important.
Note: that because the second tier of value involves getting value of documents, SharePoint and Office 365 will play a central role in driving mobile initiatives. It’s simply that 80% of organizations already have SharePoint for managing and sharing documents. So whatever strategy you take, using the secure enterprise tools you already have in-house, like Office 365 and SharePoint will be key parts of a successful initiative.
OK – so you know WHAT you have to find a way to give mobile workers secure access to important documents, AND let them work on those documents and share them to achieve that second tier of value.
The WHAT is simple.
But HOW do you do this? There has to be a strategy if you want this to succeed because just making the tools available doesn’t work. We all know that changing peoples’ behavior is the biggest impediment to adopting new technology. So the value to the user has to be super high and the amount of work involved in doing things differently has to be very low. It has to be really simple to get people to switch.
In fact there are two approaches to providing lots of value while making it easy for workers.
One approach is to roll out mass-appeal apps to the general work population. Things like make it easy for people to take meeting notes on tablets and them upload them and share them with colleagues in one click. This approach places an emphasis on ‘ease of use’ – taking something that was complicated and making it easy.
The other approach focuses on high-value, business, vertical-specific use cases. Things like enabling railway workers to access safety procedures during an emergency situation, offline, while not connected to the network. The ability to save lives and avert disaster by acting quickly has a huge benefit and payout. Here the emphasis is on providing high value to specific workers and work situations.
For mobile apps to be successful in the corporate environment, they need to strike a balance between the usability that consumers expect in their personal life, with the security and control that is required by IT to avoid data leakage.
One such industry that really feels this pain is the Financial industry, where city bankers are highly mobile, and are therefore heavily rely on smart phones and tablets to access e-mail, but also need to collaborate with their colleagues in real-time.
SharePoint is ideal for the collaboration part, but secure and usable access from mobile devices is a real challenge.
Many financial companies have multiple mobility strategies for both corporate issued devices and Bring Your Own Devices, and as such have had to implement secure access via MDM solutions from security experts such as Good Technologies or Mobile Iron.