What History Teaches us About the Next Boom in Mobile Business

HISTORY MOBILE PRODUCTIVITY

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Before we look FORWARD We MUST understand the past

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doing what we can do today

doing what we can do today

in seconds

YET…

Nothing

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.

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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?

Worldwide smartphone units grew 55% year over year

2010 305 MILLION

2011 472 MILLION

2015 1 BILLION

Because of these precursor technologies and others, mobile communications have

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Can you guess these

Stereo Records

?

Tape Card

?

Book Rolodex

How many did you get right?

• Stats on mobile or summarize it

Don’t have digital content governance

policies

66% Have NO plan to deal

with information explosion in orgs

25% BY THE WAY… of companies

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

Polaroid 1000 Land Camera -circa 1977

This instant developed film

camera was powered by a

battery built into the film pack.

• Briefcase

• File folders

• email

How many did you get right?

• Stats on mobile or summarize it

35% Mobile video

consumption

increase in 2011

TODAY, video is currently half of all mobile traffic

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1896 1960 1968 1971 1977 1993 2001 Today

MAJOR EVENT TIMELINE

Guglielmo Marconi developed the first wireless telegraph system

DID YOU

1896

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.

1960s Have you heard of

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – US (DARPA) selected BBN to develop the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET), the father of the modern Internet.

1968 Internet’s Father is born –

Modern day eMail is born

1971 The first NETWORK email was sent via ARPANET thus beginning a global phenomenon

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)

1977

Where did ‘cellular’ come from?

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

1993

Internet reliability improves

Microsoft’s SharePoint is born

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

2001

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?

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

2012 LIKE THE ONE FROM

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