ACHSE the mobile manager

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ACHSEthe mobile manager

• Mobility

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Technological revolutions

• Email and the web represent the most profound
  changes to the way we communicate since TV and
  radio 75 years ago, the telephone 100 years ago,
  mass transportation 150 years ago and print 500
  years ago.

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Outcomes of technological advancements

• Technology precedes its uses. Technology is
  invented. Uses need to be imagined.
• New technologies enhance, partially substitute or
  replace older technologies
• 3 waves of uptake of new uses the few who are
  excited by the possibilities, the majority who
  resist before adopting, and the minority who
  resist permanently

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Information and communication technologies

• PCs and satellites
• Web and email
• Intranet and internet
• Mobility release from fixed points of access

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Professional outcomes of ICTs

• Expanding sources of information
• Access to information outside the organisation
• Expanding relationships, networks and communities
  
• Access anytime anyplace to information and
  networks leading to changes in lifestyle

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Anytime

• From synchronous activity to asynchronous
  activity
• From 9/5 to 24/7 in contrast to the common view
  that one needs to be immediately available 24/7
• Allowing time for detachment and reflection on
  context of topic, and for drafting and redrafting
  thoughts, before responding and acting in a more
  measured way than has been possible before
• Performing these activities at times of the day
  or night when the mind is at its most receptive

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Anyplace

• Receive and send messages from anywhere to
  anywhere
• Access information anywhere anytime
• An organisational but not a technical
  prerequisite to send or access from the office

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Changes in lifestyle

• Factories are declining and offices have peaked
  in utility
• Offices potentially are places for occasional
  face to face meetings
• Learning is becoming as important as work
• Working, learning, leisure and family/home
  maintenance become blended rather than
  compartmentalised activities

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Changes in media

• New media emerging web, email
• Old media transforming phone, print. Paper
  wanted more than needed!
• Old media disappearing fax
• Old media long since gone telegraph, telex

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ACHSEthe mobile manager

• Mobility