Words cannot express how much I dislike almost everything this article represents.
Aside from the obvious bias and numerous questionable assumptions about how effective this kind of technology can be, there is a fundamental position summed up by the lines:
"Enterprise Mobility and Bring Your own Device (BYOD) have created a huge shift in the Enterprise, with more and more employees requesting access to data anytime, anywhere."
and
"Mobile technology has created a workforce that never stops working."
It's hard to dispute the basic principle that you should make business decisions based on solid data where you have it, and that it is therefore useful to have good tools that present data in a useful way.
None of that changes the fact that small, touchscreen devices are not particularly good tools for exploring data in detail and performing the kinds of detailed analysis this article implies. In short, if you need to make a critical business decision Right Now when you're out of the office, and that business decision requires serious analysis of detailed data on the spot, you're already doing so much so badly wrong that no pretty smartphone UI is going to help you.
I leave you all with this food for thought. The article tells us:
"According to Nielsen, 83% of millennials sleep with their smartphones close by."
And yet, if you search for a simple phrase like "sleeping with smartphone" and read what numerous other sources who don't make their money pushing this stuff have reported, many with proper scientific studies behind them, you'll find that the always-online culture is causing staggering amounts of damage to our society, from all the well-known negative effects of sleep deprivation to a general lack of ability to concentrate on productive work the way everyone routinely did a few years ago via all kinds of new and disturbing reports from opticians about how these Millenials' eyes are developing (degrading might be more accurate) compared to previous generations.
The kind of culture this article promotes is toxic, and ironically should be opposed by any rational person who has access to the facts, including anyone who runs a business and wants their staff to be productive.
Aside from the obvious bias and numerous questionable assumptions about how effective this kind of technology can be, there is a fundamental position summed up by the lines:
"Enterprise Mobility and Bring Your own Device (BYOD) have created a huge shift in the Enterprise, with more and more employees requesting access to data anytime, anywhere."
and
"Mobile technology has created a workforce that never stops working."
It's hard to dispute the basic principle that you should make business decisions based on solid data where you have it, and that it is therefore useful to have good tools that present data in a useful way.
None of that changes the fact that small, touchscreen devices are not particularly good tools for exploring data in detail and performing the kinds of detailed analysis this article implies. In short, if you need to make a critical business decision Right Now when you're out of the office, and that business decision requires serious analysis of detailed data on the spot, you're already doing so much so badly wrong that no pretty smartphone UI is going to help you.
I leave you all with this food for thought. The article tells us:
"According to Nielsen, 83% of millennials sleep with their smartphones close by."
And yet, if you search for a simple phrase like "sleeping with smartphone" and read what numerous other sources who don't make their money pushing this stuff have reported, many with proper scientific studies behind them, you'll find that the always-online culture is causing staggering amounts of damage to our society, from all the well-known negative effects of sleep deprivation to a general lack of ability to concentrate on productive work the way everyone routinely did a few years ago via all kinds of new and disturbing reports from opticians about how these Millenials' eyes are developing (degrading might be more accurate) compared to previous generations.
The kind of culture this article promotes is toxic, and ironically should be opposed by any rational person who has access to the facts, including anyone who runs a business and wants their staff to be productive.