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PSF & NDL Mobile Working Survey Results 2009: Trends in Mobile Working

November 11, 2009 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

Chris Coleman, Product Manager, NDL

NDL in conjunction with Public Sector Forums is currently undertaking a comprehensive survey of mobile working practices across local government, due to be published at this event. This presentation will provide an insight into the survey results and present the key findings around issues which include:

What stage adoption of mobile technology is really at?
Planned growth of use mobile devices over the next few years.
Perceived barriers and benefits to mobile working.
Which departments tend to take the lead?
Should the approach to mobile working be corporate?
Does the technology match the hype?

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working Tagged With: Change, efficiencies, local government, mobile working, service delivery, transformation

Culture Change and Modernisation for Flexible Working – Jon Watkinson, Senior Consultant, The Project Network

June 23, 2009 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

The initial findings of the 2009 Trends in Mobile Working Survey has identified that one of the main barriers to Mobile and Flexible Working projects is Culture Change.

Many organisation have achieved the technical and practical aspects of adopting Flexible working, but struggle with the cultural resistance that stops it from happening. This session will identify the hurdles, explore ways to overcome them and suggest some quick wins.

Getting beneath the excuses
The real cultural hurdles
Changing the culture
No cost and low cost Quick wins

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working Tagged With: culture change, efficiencies, flexible working, local government, mobile working, transformation

Mobile Working within Transport, Highways and Environment – Dave Carter, Directorate Performance Manager, Solihull MBC

June 23, 2009 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

This case study shares the journey that Transport, Highways and the Environment, a division within Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, went through in implementing a mobile working project to overcome pressures through changes in the highway act, which acted as an opportunity to improve the way they worked.

Through the vision, the implementation, the challenges and how they overcame them.

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working Tagged With: efficiencies, Highways, mobile working, nomads, service delivery, transformation

Think strategically to future-proof your investment and manage risk for Mobile Worker Solutions

February 20, 2008 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

Andrew Dawson, Technical Director, Integral Mobile Data

Mobile Computing solutions are a means to Business transformation, not an end in itself. Organisations that take the right strategic approach to what they want to achieve and how, can optimise their investments and cut through the complex technical and business challenges involved.

PEST factors affecting the long-term plans across the organization.
User buy-in to both the technology and changed working practices
Security and OTA system management.
Integration of data for a services-orientated approach with legacy systems – for example in the context of integrating services to citizens through single points of delivery points, in Social Care and Regulatory Enforcement.
Adaptability, scaleabilty and extensibility – business processes are dynamic and needs will change; new possibilities will emerge; supporting technology is constantly evolving.
And therefore, Total Cost of Ownership – On-costs to adapt to change can vary hugely.

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working Tagged With: Data Integration, efficiencies, flexible working, local government, mobile working, nomads, transformation

Delivering Consistent Transformation: A single enterprise mobile solution for all departments

February 20, 2008 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

David Murray, Co-Founder, Kirona. Some Local Authorities, keen to address the delivery of Gershon and CSR07 efficiency savings, are now questioning the multiplicity of solutions that they are procuring and want to consider the options for investing in a single platform for mobile technology.
This presentation looks at how leading LA’s are investing in a single platform to enable mobile and flexible working across all departments and the transformational outcomes being delivered.

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working Tagged With: efficiencies, flexible working, local government, mobile working, nomads, transformation

Greening the Public Sector Through Effective Use of Mobile Technology

February 11, 2008 By Gary Marston Leave a Comment

Steve Reynolds, Chair, MDA (Mobile Data Association)

In local government in general, there are a huge range of job functions and activities to which mobile working technology could be applied to significantly reduce environmental impact. These range from social services activities, environmental services and building control to home care, parking services and housing – the list is almost endless. What they have in common is the potential to optimise how job schedules are organised and as a result by how much the overall amount of travel undertaken to carry out the jobs can be reduced. These field workers perform vital roles across the country for local authorities – many of them travel a great deal to perform their duties. The adoption of mobility technology can radically improve efficiency of remote workers out in the field, and as a result eliminate unnecessary journeys, save very large sums in fuel and reduce the amount of paper used in day-to-day activities by a huge amount. Steve will work through some practical case studies to illustrate how mobile technology can impact on the green agenda in this way.

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Mobile & Flexible Working Tagged With: Carbon Footprint, efficiencies, flexible working, local government, mobile working, nomads, transformation