Every industry can benefit when workers collaborate more effectively. Working together can improve efficiency and productivity while boosting employee satisfaction and morale. But in the healthcare industry, effective collaboration can literally mean the difference between life and death. Because collaboration is so important in healthcare, technology advancements that make it easier for caregivers, providers and…

At a meeting I attended recently, someone asked two new members of the sales team (both in their mid-20s) how they felt about email. They both said that they would use it if they had to, but that they preferred to communicate via text message. Now, to paraphrase Mark Twain, the rumors of email’s death…

Work is changing. In fact, nearly everything about work is evolving rapidly. Workers are becoming more mobile and connected. Workplaces are becoming more flexible and collaborative. The results of these changes are greater efficiency, higher productivity and improved satisfaction among workers. As the workplace evolves, we’re seeing some interesting trends. The U.S. Workplace Survey 2019,…

Today’s smartphones have security features that were practically science fiction just a few years ago. A user with a new device likely has a phone that encrypts data, continuously updates its operating system to ward off threats and allows users to authenticate their identity with biometric factors such as fingerprint and facial recognition.

This is great for users, and it can also be great for the enterprise. By taking advantage of these baked-in security measures, organizations can direct their own efforts toward other security steps and ensure that their growing mobile environments don’t put their networks and data in harm’s way.

Conversations about managing mobile devices can quickly turn into alphabet soup. First there was MDM, or mobile device management, which gave organizations better visibility into and control over smartphones and tablets. Then came EMM, or enterprise mobility management, which added content and application management capabilities alongside device management. The latest evolution is UEM, or unified…

Until recently, organizations had compelling technology-related reasons for limiting remote work. Video solutions that would enable face-to-face communication were wonky; it was difficult to secure and update off-network employee devices; and workers needed to use often-clunky virtual private network (VPN) connections to access critical work applications. Today, all that has changed — or, at least,…