The Internet, broadband access, camera phones, voice-over-IP, instant messaging, social networking, video uploading - all make obvious the increasing importance of communications and connectivity in our daily lives.
But what does all of this connectedness, this addiction to sharing information every moment of every day, mean for businesses and organizations? What decisions will companies have to make to ensure this "connectedness" becomes a competitive advantage? Where are the opportunities and challenges? What are the implications for employees, senior management and CIOs?
To answer these questions, Nortel tasked IDC to conduct a global study of almost 2,400 working adults in 17 countries. The study focused on quantifying the state of today's connectedness, tracking its acceptance and use across devices and applications as well as determining the pace of its growth and impact on the enterprise.
Here's the essence of what we found -- enterprises around the world are facing an exploding "culture of connectivity." Not only is 16% of the global information workforce already "Hyperconnected," more significantly, another 36% will be joining them soon!
This evolution towards increasing levels of connectivity will have a profound impact on enterprises, creating challenges in managing these new tools of connectivity while providing information securely and reliably, and ensuring that this connectivity is productive.
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