Thursday, September 01, 2011

Looking to take the iPad into the Board Room?

I'm always on the look out for ways to bring the tablets into the enterprise and this has to be one of the simplest ways - also talk about getting some real buy in at the board level.

Simply put - either provide your board with apps and links to materials for your board meetings if they have an iPad or tablet or and here it comes . . .  give them preloaded tablets as a means to connect them to your organization and activities that are happening with your partners, affiliates and coalition members.

There is a group out there called Diligent which provides a secure service for deploying materials that allows for either online or offline use in and for boards.  This service could even go beyond board practices but could be extended to internal senior managements that meet in diverse locations as they too could greatly benefit from this type of solution.

 

Think about the paper you will save, think about how few issues you will have with access to internal data stores or SharePoint sites from different Operating system and platforms?  I like this idea, give them the tools and fully load them with a service that is both secure and robust.  

What was that line from Scotty said in Star Trek?  The right tool for the right job - BoardBooks may be that right tool!


Michael Sola is a Technologist who finds solutions and can translate tech into english. He's a blogger, invited presenter and speaker - he also rarely has to show ID to walk into a pub. Follow him at http://twitter.com/michaelsola : his views and comments are his own.

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