Mobile Technology...is it a case of VHS vs Betamax?

In one corner we have Apple with their IPhone/iPad combination, in the second corner we have the real heavweight Microsoft, with Windows Mobile, in the third corner we have Android and in the fourth corner sits Blackberry. "Seconds OUT, let battle commence or should I say escalate!?!"

Without Nokia having recently dropped its own Symbian technology, in favour of Windows Mobile, my boxing ring analogy would be looking pretty weak.

Conversations (and event polls) we have with clients and prospects alike, would indicate that many organisations are yet to even consider a corporate standard for mobile devices, let alone decide on which mobile technology to adopt. 

In addition it is clear that for many organisations the mobile devices used by their employees are, beyond calls, e-mails, calendars and of course games and social networking totally under utilised. They are in short corporate gadgets and 'play things', and organisations do not fully exploit the opportunities available to them by adopting a mobile element to their business systems strategy. 

I recently read somewhere that BPM and particularly mobile BPM, is a technology waiting for a problem to solve. 

The truth is that those of us deploying this technology are getting on with the job of helping our clients to address their critical process issues, concerns and pains; rather than waiting for the perfect storm (mobile technology, bpm technology and market awareness) which is some way off, and if some commentators are to be believed, may never actually happen! 

The key is helping organisations see how Business Process Management principles, solutions and mobile solutions, can solve the problems they face now, rather than trying to convince them that some BPM nirvana is just around the corner!

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