When we talk about connected enterprises and interconnected and interdepent employees, it’s hard for many people to imagine this kind of reality, to visualize what it may look like in their day to day job.
That’s not a suprise. Just try to think like anybody who’s been using for at least ten years three communication modes : face to face meetings, phone and email. This person may not know any other way to communicate, even in his private life. Then try to feel what they feel when they hear about permanent interconnection, mobility, information as flows, personal informational supply chain. It’s in some way like explaining Graham Bell what the iPhone is. Add to that that this person may only know one way to communicate : one person decides to communicate something to another which is forced to receive it. In brief a world with only three kind of channels where we have to choice between seeking someone or being seeked by someone.
In order to understand the whole field of what’s possible in this area, it’s important to know how our desktop will look like in the upcoming times. By “desktop” I mean our computer’s one, indeed our mobile devices’
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