A survey of 150 government tech leaders has found they’re bullish about the potential for mobility in their organisations. However, more than 50 percent of those surveyed had little idea about how much implementing a mobility strategy would cost.
The survey, conducted by Tech Research Asia on behalf of Blink Mobile Interactive, an enterprise mobility platform provider, also found the government tech leaders thought mobility would provide the slightly nebulous benefits of improved processes and efficiencies.
However 47 per cent of respondents admitted they didn't know how much budget to allocate for mobility projects. A further 31 per cent said they had "a pretty good idea" while 15 per cent felt they had "formulated an estimate". Only 7 per cent of respondents were confident they knew precisely how much money they would need to spend on their project.
Less than a quarter of respondents indicated they would develop mobility solutions in-house, The remainder plan to either use existing vendor mobility solutions (38 per cent) or engage a specialist organisation to design and implement a solution (37 per cent). The study also revealed that senior business managers are more likely to be the driver of mobility strategies rather than the IT department itself.
Asked to nominate their key priorities for agency-wide mobility projects, 70 per cent of respondents identified integration with existing systems and services as being either "extremely" or "very" important. This was followed by support for future technologies (59 per cent) and the ability to support most or all of a department's needs (55 per cent).
When it comes to the specific functions within their agency that would benefit most from mobility, more than half of respondents (51 per cent) nominated field data collection and inspections / reporting as being either "extremely" or "very" important. Email was placed in the same category by 50 per cent, followed by work orders and asset management (36 per cent).
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