公文写作培训PPT要素.ppt

* * * Extreme Mobility ? The mobile lifestyles people are living in their personal lives is expected to be available in their work environment. And these workstyles are nothing like those offered even a few years ago. Even a few years ago the supporting technologies for mobility were not available. Mobile phones were prevalent globally, but they were used for calls and were hard or impossible to connect to the Internet. Laptops and mobile devices needed a plethora of cables to get on-line, and even then were painfully slow. Reading and sending e-mail on a mobile phone was a complicated matter for only the most tech-savvy. Bandwidth was rare and expensive in the home – and unavailable in public spaces. There was no Wi-Fi. There were devices, but little connectivity – and only the most tech savvy ventured there. ? Another big assumption confused mobility with travel. Early mobile phones were used largely by business executives – and we in IT assumed that mobility was about supporting the corporate traveler in particular. Many mobile workers are travelers - frequent flyers, for example. But although extreme mobility and travel can coincide, they need not. Indeed, how far he moves is completely irrelevant. Even if an urban mobile worker confines himself to a small perimeter, he nonetheless has a new and surprisingly different relationship to time, to place and to other people. Permanent connectivity, not motion, is the critical thing, ? Devices, too, are on a steep trajectory. Now the mobile phone is on course to replace the PC as the primary device for getting online. According to the International Telecommunications Union, 3.3 billion people, more than half the world’s population, now subscribe to a mobile-phone service, so the internet at last looks set to change the whole world. ? (The Economist April 12th 2008 A special report on mobility 1) A few more data points: There will be 4 times the number of managed devices than PCs by 2009 Laptops will overtake deskt