Nortel Networks comments on our impending hyperconnected and virtual future after commissioning IDC to track close to 2,400 working adults in 17 countries.
Based on the number of respondents in certain clusters and then factoring in the rate of workers entering the workforce and retiring and likely adoption rates — they estimate that the sixteen percent of the total information workforce currently “hyperconnected” may soon increase to a startling forty percent.
The hyperconnected depend on the devices and applications that make them hyperconnected — forty seven percent said a network outage at work would have an extreme impact on them. Technology supporting the hyperconnected has become mission critical!
The boundary between work and personal connectivity for the hyperconnected is almost nonexistent. Two-thirds use text or instant messaging for both work and personal use. More than a third use social networking for both. The freedom to conduct work during personal time will force changes to personal use policies, business practices, training curricula, and IT support policies.
The migration to Hyperconnectivity will create a profusion of devices, applications, and new business processes. Already, the average hyperconnected individual uses at least nine devices to access the network and seven connectivity applications. This profusion will create the need for a strategy and architecture for unified communications across the enterprise if an orderly migration is to occur.
As baby boomers retire, businesses will find themselves competing within today’s hyperconnected base of talent. Is your company ready to compete in the emerging war for talent? Tomorrow’s workforce will increasingly expect to work in a hyperconnected communications environment and many will consider this a condition of employment.
Connectivity tools in the hands of employees may increase productivity, but they also increase the risk of the release of sensitive information to the outside world. Already a fourth of hyperconnected respondent companies use blogs and wikis to communicate with customers and other outsiders.
It is unavoidable…hyperconnectivity is coming and coming fast.
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Posted in Blogging by wayne.porter on May 31st, 2008 
