What a beautiful morning! I was back for the second day in a row at the beautiful Grand Hotel in Stockholm for an IDC conference with the exciting topic: Consumerisation of IT. The entrance was packed with approximately 40 Chinese people in black suits. I felt a bit different, but soon I found the conference room which was full of my new friends; the CIO:s. There I felt at home since I understand and can talk their IT language. I don’t speak Chinese yet :). Approximately 100 people had signed up for the conference. I was very much looking forward to discuss the challenges and possibilities of consumerisation of IT with analysts and participants.
The introduction speech was held by Nils Molin the Director of IDC in the Nordic countries. He clearly stressed the importance of having a strategy to handle the consequences of Consumerisation of IT. According to IDC this...
As a consequence of the IT consumerisation trend, users to a greater extent demand user friendly tools in their workplace. They require tools that match the way they want to work. People are used to quick, social and collaborative tools in their private lives and it’s only natural they want the same easiness at work. A security survey from Crypzone made me realize that the urge to get the job done, in a less complicated way, has forced users to break IT policies for document security. The survey focused on the security aspects of how SharePoint’s users handle documents. SharePoint is Microsoft’s collaboration platform that is to 60% steered by IT dep’s as they are admins, no external users are allowed. So, the security is set to be higher than the clouds.
The results from the SharePoint security survey showed:
45% of the Sharepoint users responded that they had copied sensitive and confidential information...
Hi all iPhone users,
We have just released a new iPhone/iPad app on the appstore. You can find it by searching for Projectplace Documents. At the moment it focuses on access to your projectplace documents and seeing what happens with them. You can for example tag documents for offline viewing. When introducing the new app we decided to withdraw the old app from the appstore. If you already have the old app installed it will keep working the same way as before. Our mobile development team are now focusing on getting the most popular features of the old app into the new one. Which is your favourite feature of the old iPhone app? Head over to Projectplace Ideas and browse through the improvement ideas and feature requests for the mobile app and vote and comment on the ideas there. Or why not...
2011 was the year the whole world went mobile. We work more frequently from home, from the bus, train, while travelling.. We are constantly logged in to our email, Facebook, Twitter and in Sweden EVERYBODY got addicted to the brain exercise game Wordfeud. Here's some insights and great stuff from 2011 that we would like to share with you all.
1. THE WORLD GOES MOBILE
According to our yearly customer survey, 28% of our European users have an iPhone while 24% prefers Android. As 80% also use laptops we consider our customers to be a very mobile group of professionals.
2. A TOOL FOR THE FUTURE
Last year, our development guys and girls focused on preparing our system for the future. We removed lots and lots of old frames and started to design and build our, soon to be launched, brand new support for “Collaborative Planning”. In June we launched the popular LIKE button...
A recent poll conducted by LinkedIn found that more than a third of respondents (36%) work remotely every day while 32% work remotely at least once a week. Only one in ten reported that they never work remotely and another 11% responded that they work remotely “only when they have to”. Whether working on the go or as a permanent flexible working arrangement, more and more employees are logging hours away from the office. Yet many still face barriers to efficiency when working remotely.
When asked what the biggest barrier to efficiency is when working remotely, the most common answer was “I can’t see what others do” (32%). The second most common complaint by remote workers was that they are unable to attend meetings (24%). When remote employees lack of visibility into their team members’ work, or are excluded from team meetings, communication suffers. As a result, common problems include duplication...
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