Questions Executives Should Ask Prior To Tablet Rollout ? Fritz Switzer, CAO The abletFactory

What is our Strategy? Adopting technology without a strategy and without formally identifying and validating business requirements is like playing corporate “Powerball”. Such requirements must be “customer focused” whether internal, external or both. Positive effect must be quantifiable

Is Our Technology Adoption Plan? Random Include a magic wand Time and money waster

Today’s Executive Questions Is the introduction of Tablets aligned with the business strategy? With regard to previous technology implementations –Which ones went well and why? –Which ones crashed and burned?

Three Tablet Questions Form or Function? Software alternatives? Mobility and Collaboration? Oh yeah, ROI? ROI? ROI?

Form Factors ? Laptops –Tablets- PDAs Slate,Convertible,Hybrid Input Methods? –Keyboard –Digital Ink –Speech Recognition

Software Issues For Tablets ? Forms MS Office Apps Databases Languages Recognition

Mobility and Collaboration? Wireless Desktop/Laptop replacement Peer-to-Peer

Impacts on Business processes What will improve and by how much? What must change? (processes, systems integration, regulatory, and facilities considerations) Who will design and implement these changes?

Tablet ROI ? Let’s Learn from the Laptops Increase Productivity Increase Revenues Lower Costs

Lower Total Cost of Ownership ? 1995 TCO difference between notebooks and desktops $ delta $1000 The question then is: How much extra value do you need to get from a Tablet to make up the $1000 difference?

Extra credit TCO answer ! Tablet PC users would need to perform one extra hour of productive work per week to justify the additional TCO of a Tablet

Higher Total Benefit of Ownership (TBO) Mobil users realize productivity improvements of the magnitude of 3-8 hours per week Gartner Consulting: Business users that spend 20% or more time out of office realize a minimum annual benefit of $34,560 due to improved productivity and efficiency.

Recommendation After implementation, continuously measure and report effectiveness If it isn’t delivering, drill down and find out why It’s not about technology, but rather –People, processes and then technology

The Killer Answer? Deploying high-performance Tablets have additional benefits –Provide significant investment protection –The more powerful the Tablet, the less likely they will need to be replaced early as software demands grow. –High-end Tablets enjoy a longer lifecycle in the field.

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