Platform / OS / Mobility

Flexible working for efficiency and effectiveness Following the May 2010 general election and resulting budget cuts, the UK public sector faces the toughest challenges in decades. Adoption of leaner, more agile work styles, implementation of mobile and flexible working solutions and some strong executive leadership will be called for if the sector is to continue delivering the required levels of public services while producing the many billions of efficiency savings that will be expected of it.

Every day sees another headline that illustrates how data protection has been ignored, resulting in vital data that has been exposed or lost. There’s no denying that the loss of mobile devices is a key culprit. The Metropolitan Police states that in the UK alone 10,000 handsets are reported stolen each month. And it’s likely that this potential risk will only escalate given that smartphone adoption is set for rapid growth over the next three years. Indeed, a 2009 report predicts that smartphones will double their share of the handset market to 20 percent by 2013¹. Here, Stephen Davies, UK Product Manager for Vodafone Mobile Exchange, shares his thoughts on how enterprises can avoid such pitfalls.