{"id":4550,"date":"2012-09-05T07:25:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T12:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:46:46","slug":"mobile-apps-off-the-shelf-gadgets-hours-of-saved-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/mobile-apps-off-the-shelf-gadgets-hours-of-saved-time\/","title":{"rendered":"This mobile strategy might inspire you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SaveTime.jpg\" alt=\"Save Time\" title=\"SaveTime\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-728\" \/>\u201cBut&#8230;how can we use it in our business?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the biggest question surrounding every major tech trend.  How can it help my company?  Smart companies know that while big tech trends may get a lot of press, that doesn\u2019t make them useful.  They must understand the business value before jumping on board.  <\/p>\n<p>Rather than try to explain how certain tech trends can help your business, I prefer to take a look at real-life examples.  Today, let\u2019s check out a company that\u2019s using a major tech trend (mobile) to save time and money.<\/p>\n<p>What are they doing?  They\u2019re using off-the-shelf gadgets (instead of expensive business equipment) combined with simple mobile web apps to dramatically reduce the time it takes to log inventory.  If you\u2019d like to read the whole story, you can <span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">find it over on ibmsystemsmag.com<\/span>.<a name=\"20120904\"><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut&#8230;how can we use it in our business?\u201d That\u2019s the biggest question surrounding every major tech trend. How can it help my company? Smart companies know that while big tech trends may get a lot of press, that doesn\u2019t make them useful. They must understand the business value before jumping on board. Rather than try &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/mobile-apps-off-the-shelf-gadgets-hours-of-saved-time\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This mobile strategy might inspire you<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"This mobile strategy might inspire you - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"\u201cBut...how can we use it in our business?\u201d That\u2019s the biggest question surrounding every major tech trend. How can it help my company? Smart companies know that"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34,35],"class_list":["post-4550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-save-time","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13753,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions\/13753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}