Mobile Collaborative Workplace Scenarios In The ICT Industry

Abstract

Mobile collaborative workplaces offer flexibility, productivity and competitive
advantages for the ICT industry. This paper examines future workplace scenarios and
work behaviour against the background of the adoption of mobile technology and
processes. Six futuristic, independently generated, generic scenarios were developed
and analysed. The analysis identified research clusters and the critical dependent
knowledge competencies. Concurrently, numbers of vision elements were evaluated
through an innovative web based survey composed of several polls combined together.
The paper concludes that the provision of cheap telecommunications bandwidth,
ubiquitous mobile access, flexible business organisations, societal requirements and
new technology will result in the network becoming the workplace for the knowledge
worker.