Слайд 1Famous Last Words about Technology in the Workplace
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Technology in the workplace has come a long way.
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It started with…
Desktop Computers
Copy Machine
Desk Phones
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Technologies that were once new and intimidating became commonplace.
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And though they were popular in our personal lives…
Слайд 9Many doomed them to fail as tools for work.
Слайд 10Let’s take a look back a few early predictions.
Слайд 11Let’s take a look back a few early predictions.
(but not so
accurate)
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”This ’telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as
a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”
− Western Union memo, 1876
Слайд 14But…
By 2008, Polycom reached
$1 billion in
revenue.
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“In the mid-70s, someone came to me with an idea for
what was basically the PC.
I asked: 'What's it good for?' And the only answer was that a housewife could keep her recipes on it. I personally didn't see anything useful in it, so we never gave it another thought.”
− Gordon Moore, Intel
Слайд 18Over 300 million PCs were shipped in 2014.
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”By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s
impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”
− Paul Krugman, 1998
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4.3 billion people used the Internet in 2013.
Слайд 22Or nearly 61%
of the world’s population.
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”Few companies encourage employees to use AOL’s instant messaging service, though
many workers do so anyway.”
− Julia Angwin, Zdnet, 2011
Слайд 25But…
By 2005, AIM dominated the IM market with 53M users.
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”There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any
significant market share. No chance.”
− Steve Ballmer, USA Today, 2007
Слайд 28But by 2014, more than 500 million iPhones were sold.
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”Enterprise social networking sure can sound a lot like the benefits
that were supposed to be delivered by previous generations of [software]. Sure, sure, it’s different this time. ”
− David F. Carr, InformationWeek, 2011
Слайд 31ESN users are projected to top 535 million by 2018.
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”As technology progresses, texting is slowly becoming more and more unnecessary.
All it does is give us another way to interact with others with a lot of added nuances.”
− Alexia LaFata, ThoughtCatalog, 2014
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Use of messaging apps grew 203% in 2013.
Слайд 35And over 15,000 businesses are using enterprise mobile messaging from Cotap.
Слайд 36So before you dismiss enterprise mobile messaging
as just another trend…