An overwhelming 90% of organisations across the globe are planning to either up or maintain their investments in mobile technologies up to 2015, a new IBM study revealed.
The report noted that about half of the organisations reported gains of more than 10% in employee productivity owing to their mobile efforts.
Of the overall mobile strategy leaders surveyed, about 73% reported considerable returns on their mobile investments, while 81% said mobile has essentially modified their business procedures.
IBM’s Kevin Custis said that mobile is quickly emerging as a transformational game changer in business that will drive new levels of innovation and interactions.
"It is far too limiting to define mobility simply as a device or a channel for transactions," Custis said.
"The organisations that come out ahead will be the ones that prioritise mobile and redefine its use to drive a new set of business expectations and user experiences."
According to report, 20% of businesses consider that they have a better mobile strategy than their industry peers, while 44% of them foresee their mobility policy to be in advance to their peers by 2016.
Integrating mobile apps with existing systems tops the list of mobile challenges facing organisations, followed by executing end-to-end mobile security solutions for devices and apps (53%) and responding to modifications in technology and mobile devices in a practical time period (51%).
Around 70% of survey respondents portrayed themselves as efficient in areas including tackling structured and unstructured mobile data, managing massive volumes of data, studying mobile data and shaping the business from the findings of the data.
Just 37% of non-business leaders are equipped to deal with such issues.
Faster customer response time was considered to be a key benefit of using mobile, at 58%, while 78% of firms said they plan to boost their investment in employees’ capability to work outside the workplace.
Seventy percent of respondents have successfully assured interoperability with other systems, by taking advantage of APIs for external or cloud-provided data services, and offering service-oriented architecture as well as sharing information among systems/devices.
Of the overall surveyed, 79% of them reported that their businesses have implemented well-documented policies for employees using mobile devices.
About 37% of banking respondents surveyed reported that their organisation has implemented a BYOD approach, while 66% confirmed the adoption of BYOD.
