Businesses that will be successful in the future will be those who break down the barriers between people, workplaces and technologies and empower their employees to be productive and creative wherever they are...
If European businesses want to fully reap the benefits of flexible working, they need to make information, interaction and access readily available to all their knowledge workers...
IT is a catalyst for new ways of working, but competitive advantage increasingly comes from letting employees use technology in the way they want to. This requires a business culture that puts people first.
A change in leadership attitudes towards technology is required, as is only now being challenged by the tensions between economics and control with the consumerisation of IT and the development of cloud computing...
Collaboration between business and IT is necessary to understanding such trends in technology development in order to react and respond accordingly...
It is those organisations that harness the benefits of the latest technologies first that will really be able to claim maximum competitive advantage.
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