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Locking down systems and data restricts enterprise mobilisation

Mobility experts from Apadmi, Samsung and Airwatch call for managed risk and user empowerment

Samsung’s Vlad Botic has called for businesses to reassess their processes and policies, and question whether they are still applicable in today’s digital workplace. Speaking to a wide range of organisations at Apadmi’s cross-industry forum in Manchester, Samsung Electronics’ Head of Mobility Architecture asserted that, “We are now in a ‘third phase’ of IT evolution where disruption and the opportunities presented by big data, social, cloud and mobility have moved busines and user expectations beyond the current delivery aspirations of many IT functions, which are being constrained by organisational realities.”

Commenting on the need for cultural change, Vlad said: “The IT function has been delivering in the same way for 20 years, but the technology and business expectations has moved on. Organisations msut evaluate their strategy and re-imagine their business in the digital world.”

Adrian Dumbleton from enterprise mobility management company, AirWatch asserted that the era of MDM is over, “Leveraging the foundational components of Airwatch’s MDM background, we are moving into a period of file sync and share, away from just consuming content to collaborating using a range of devices and applications. Businesses are starting to understand that they can’t eradicate risk and instead must work to educate and empower the workforce so that risk is managed effectively.”

Apadmi, who hosted the forum, believes that good technology providers have entered the field of organisational change management where systems should take account of, and help define, the strategic direction of the business. Matt Hunt of Apadmi works with companies looking for mobility solutions and applications, “We find that getting the stakeholders in one room generates a wider strategic discussion and this is where we can facilitate how businesses can develop mobility solutions that don’t answer the issues of here and now, but that support transition and success.”

The forum, held in Manchester at the end of May, welcomed businesses including Bank of America, The Co-op, the General Medical Council and Home Retail Group. The event included keynote speeches as well as the opportunity for those attending to have table discussions with a number of mobility experts from Apadmi, Samsung and AirWatch.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Joseph Rutter .