Chapter 6Mobility Drives Agility
We are about halfway through our book that so far must have enlightened you with a fascinating paradigm shift in business model, business processes, new delivery and deployment platform, whole new tools and technologies for collaboration, and applications to transform your business and to help you create business agility. In this chapter, we touch upon mobility, mobile devices management (MDM), and mobile applications management (MAM) in greater detail.
Gone are the days when mobile phones were used for telephonic conversation alone. Now we check our smart devices for e-mails, text messages, and various applications such as searching for any web content, music, video, and many business applications. It is not an exaggeration to say that we are carrying a smart computer in our pocket all the time to provide us the agility we need in a dynamic and ever-changing business environment. Our lifestyle has changed dramatically in the past few years, and we are getting accustomed to using these smart devices for everything, including business transactions, communication, entertainment, shopping, and leisure.
In the past decade, we have witnessed a smart revolution in the mobile space. The number of mobile devices has increased fivefold from one billion to five billion, with an astonishing increase in the number of connected people from 400 million to over two billion. This unprecedented growth of connectivity has created an overwhelming range of new possibilities ...
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