By Tim Rygh | tim@dailydisruption.com | January 31st, 2012
As the evolution of mobile technology continues, people want to use their own smartphones and tablets at work. They don’t want to lug around a corporate phone, a personal phone, a laptop, and increasingly, a tablet. They want the hottest smartphones and coolest tablets, not a 5-year-old relic. They want the convenience of using the right mobile device at the right moment to be productive at work—and to stay in touch with home—often at the same time.
“There’s a big shift inside the enterprise,” said Pej Roshan, vice president of mobility at ShoreTel. “Enterprises used to be rigid about limiting mobile devices to salespeople and world travelers, but now there is a very large percentage of ‘connected workers’ — anyone in the enterprise who has a smartphone or tablet.”
In fact, IDC expects total smartphone sales in 2011 to reach 472 million across the globe, rising to 982 million in 2015. A Nielsen study found that 55 percent of new handsets in the United States are now smartphones, up from 34 percent a year ago. Apple shipped 4.69 million iPads in the first quarter of 2011 alone, and the tablet market is increasingly competitive.
We had the privilege of catching up with Pej on Disrupt Live, to talk about this and other issues related to the enterprise heading into 2012, take a peek.
