During the next 5 Years the Web2.0 commercial focus will quickly shift from
Multimedia Entertainment to “Real-Time” Business Intelligence, Operations
and Applications. Following on from the Web1.0 dynamics, this will apply
both to fixed, mobile Wi-Fi, 3GSM and all other forms of on-line
communications.
So here we introduce some general areas in which Web2.0 applications
may impact businesses – from Blue-Chip FTSE100 through to SME’s and
Start-Ups. Then we'll package these ideas into some preliminary ideas for
New Mobile Ventures that may be of commercial interest to yourselves.
In the “Real-Time” Business Scenario MBiZ is thinking of ways in which the
traditional Board of Directors Meetings could be realised “on-line” through
mobile communications. Of course, the concept of the Board dates back to
the pre-Victorian Age and the birth of the Industrial Revolution with Woollen
Mills and large semi-automated businesses. Now we finally have the
supporting technologies that allow businesses to re-structure with a
radically new peer-to-peer architecture more akin to “self-organising
systems” than to the dynamics of the industrial steam engine!
Of course, some of these applications may require a Mobile Device with
Dual 3GHz Processors, and 30GBytes Memory, but this will not be a
constraint in 5 years time! It seems probable that these devices will largely
replace the executive laptop, whilst mobile devices with larger screens such
as the latest Apple iPhone will emerge as market leaders.
Future MBiZ Mobile Business Applications may include :
- Mobile Board Meetings
- Mobile Operations Room
- Location Proximity Advertising
- "Real-Time" Sales Force
- Business Intelligence
- Mobile Travel Secretary
- Open-Source Office
- Multi-Media Conferencing
- Ultra-Mobility
