HISTORY MOBILE PRODUCTIVITY
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Before we look FORWARD
We MUST understand the past

easy

doing what we can do today

doing what we can do today
in seconds

YET…

Nothing

and…

AND
were the precursors for today’s
mobile tools

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So, what were some of the

We highlight the ones that were
at the time.

We highlight the ones that were
at the time.
LET’S GET STARTED…

1.

Can you
what these are?

1979 ANDERSON
JACOBSON Acoustic
Modem
110 baud doesn’t sound
like much today (110 bits
per second) Where
Mobile 4G speeds can
be up to 1 billion bits per
second

How many
did you
get right?

Because of these precursor technologies and
others, mobile communications have
Worldwide smartphone units grew 55% year over year
2010 305
MILLION
2011 472
MILLION
2015 1
BILLION

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2.

Can you guess these

Stereo Records

?

Tape
Card

?

Book Rolodex

How many did you get right?

BY THE WAY… of companies
• Stats on mobile or summarize it 25%
Have NO plan to deal
with information
66%
Don’t have digital
explosion in orgs
content governance
policies

What are these

Need to show
your latest
images? Just
whip out this
tiny 35mm
slide projector.

With a price tag
of $309, this
‘portable’
movie camera
was equipped
with 3 lenses

This instant
developed film
camera was
powered by a
battery built into
Polaroid 1000 Land Camera -circa 1977
the film pack.

• Briefcase
• File folders
• email
How many did you get right?

TODAY, video is currently half
of all mobile traffic
• Stats on mobile or summarize it
35%
Mobile video
consumption
increase in 2011

4

MAJOR EVENT TIMELINE
1896 1960 1968 1971 1977 1993 2001 Today

DID YOU
1896
Guglielmo Marconi
developed the first
wireless telegraph
system

1960s Have you heard of
The IMTS, short for Improved
Mobile Telephone Service is one
of the radiotelephone systems
that belong to the “0G” or Zero
Generation pre-cellular systems.
The system is just an
enhancement of the existing
MTS or Mobile Telephone
System.

Internet’s Father is born –
1968
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – US (DARPA) selected
BBN to develop the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
(ARPANET), the father of the modern Internet.

Modern day eMail is born
1971
The first NETWORK email
was sent via ARPANET thus
beginning a global
phenomenon

Where did ‘cellular’ come from?
1977
The Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS), invented
by Bell Labs, first installed in the US with geographic
regions divided into ‘cells’ (i.e. cellular telephone)

Internet reliability improves
1993
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) established for
reliable transmission over the Internet in conjunction
with the Transport Control Protocol (TCP)

Microsoft’s SharePoint is born
2001
Ushering in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
era, SharePoint was typically associated with document
management systems, but it is actually a much broader
platform of web technologies, capable of being
configured to suit a wide range of solution areas

TODAY, Wireless data growth is unprecedented
85%
Of world’s population
is covered by wireless
3 in 5
Don’t need to be in
office to be productive

S0, what do all of the
Mobile productivity
Technologies add up to?

5

Each of the previous technologies provided a
foundation for revolutionary new mobile solutions

iPhone Win8 Android
iPad

And now Social Business technology
platforms are supporting Mobile

The Latest
Example
OF COMBINING MOBILE WITH SOCIAL BUSINESS PLATFORMS…

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CREDITS and information
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianmontone/4171804306/sizes/o/in/set-
72157622842020779/
http://idm.net.au/article/008977-companies-not-coming-grips-sharepoint-governance-survey
http://harmon.ie/blog/02-27-2012
http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/news/2240148478/Survey-Enterprises-lacking-
strong-information-management-plan
• Mobile video consumption has increased 35 percent in the last year (Nielson)
• Video is currently half of all mobile data traffic (Morgan Stanley)