BCO216: 4 - Mobiility & Impacts

1. Management Information Systems
BCO-216
Fall 2014
(Mobility and Impacts on Organizations)
Raymond Gao, MBA

2. Agenda
• (1st half)
– Story of Apple and Steve Jobs
• (2nd half)
– Mobility & IOT
– Case Study: BYOD & Smart phones at Work

3. The Story of Steve Jobs

4. 2nd Half

5. Mobile Devices vs. PC

6. This is based on the
Analyst Surveys.*

8. Contemporary Hardware Platform Trends
• The mobile digital platform
– Cell phones, smartphones (iPhone, Android, Windows, and Blackberry)
• Data transmission, Web surfing, e-mail, and IM duties
– Netbooks:
• Small lightweight notebooks optimized for wireless communication and core tasks
– Tablets (iPad)
– Networked e-readers (Kindle and Nook)

11. Contemporary Hardware Platform Trends
• BYOD (Bring your own device)
– Allowing employees to use personal mobile devices in workplace
• Consumerization of IT
– New information technology emerges in consumer markets first and spreads to business organizations
– Forces businesses and IT departments to rethink how IT equipment and services are acquired and managed

13. Gartner remarks on the Mobility Topic*:
Processes*
Challenges*: Lack
cohesive planning
Processes* is the
key

14. Gartner 5 Steps to Mobile Enterprise Strategy*

15. Mobile Device and Privacy
source:
https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0

16. Case Study - Smart phones at WorkPlace / BYOD
• Is BYOD a good idea?
• Allowing employees to use their own smartphones for work will save the company money?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of allowing employees to use their personal smartphones for work?
• What management, organization, and technology factors should be addressed when deciding whether to allow
employees to use their personal smartphones for work?
– What are the risks allowing employees to use their mobile phones at work?
– What kinds of planning (enforcement policies) are need to for mobile devices at work to function correctly?
• Any after thoughts?

17. THANK YOU!
email: raymond.gao@euruni.edu
Twitter: @raygao

18. Backups

19. Link to video/article

20. John Ives, Guy Kawasaki, & Steve Jobs

21. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

22. Steve Jobs presenting iPhone 4

23. Steve Jobs and Criticism