Nick Jones

A few impressions from Gartner’s Sydney Symposium which finished on Thursday. Firstly, APAC hasn’t suffered anything like the recession that Europe and the US have undergone, so our attendees here were on the whole cautiously optimistic. Technically speaking Australia didn’t actually have a recession, there was only one quarter of negative growth, and the central [...]

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One of the themes emerging from attendees here in Cannes is the growing problem of employee-owned devices. An informal poll of the audience at yesterday’s mobile scenario presentation showed around 50 percent who expected they’d have to support more employee-owned mobiles accessing corporate systems in the future. User demand for consumer devices like iPhone is [...]

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I’m giving a presentation this week at our London PCC conference where I’ll be talking about the future of mobile work, particularly in the areas of communication and collaboration. One of the things I do when creating such presentations is to take a look at what some of the academics are doing, because a lot [...]

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I’ve been writing a new presentation on mobile work for our PCC conference in September and thinking a lot about user-owned mobile technology. Some IT professionals feel that allowing users to bring unapproved personal technology into the organisation is a bit like permitting crazed killers to roam the corridors, and is only a small step away [...]

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Today I’m working on some presentation material for our September portals and collaboration summit in London where I’ll be talking about the future of mobile working. One of the things I find disappointing about mobile collaboration and work is how primitive it still is, the killer mobile application is still the phone call. Most of the things [...]

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We all hope the current outbreak of swine flu doesn’t become a pandemic. But as my colleagues have already pointed out in other posts it’s important to have pandemic contingency plans that define what you’d do if workforce absenteeism rates exceeded 40% or you had to close offices. And as you develop and refresh those [...]

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I work from home a lot because London commuting is a pain, and most of my clients and fellow analysts are scattered around the world so face to face meetings are rare. Fortunately I just got official authorisation from the home facilities manager (aka wife) to move my home office into a larger room. So [...]

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