Do you still use a Nokia 5110 mobile phone?
An interesting observation I’ve noticed about tech, is how openly people embrace the bleeding edge in their personal lives, yet how reluctant many are to embrace it professionally.
In our personal lives, we thrive on having a supercomputer in our pockets. We use apps to make us more efficient, healthier, and happier.?Fitness apps, calorie tracking, calendar, voice memos, note pad, group chats, videos calls, on demand entertainment – all to help us optimise our time and attention. To allow us to do more of what we love and to get the best out of ourselves.
Yet when it comes to tech in a professional setting, many shy away.?
Whilst running their personal lives with the latest iPhone, they’re conducting business with systems equivalent to a Nokia 5110. The excitement for new innovations to optimise workplace time and attention just doesn’t seem to translate.
The underlying factor that stalls tech progress within business is mindset. Especially if people are worried that tech will make them less valuable. If a machine can do X part of your job, why would you advocate for it? The reason is, when X is taken care of, you have more time to do something creative or to build your relationship with your customers.?
Creativity and connection are the essential elements of a business that simply cannot be replaced by tech. This is where your time and attention should be focused.?
When you embrace automation in your workflows,?it’s in the best interest of the business, which means it’s in the best interest of each individual within the business.?There is no point resisting change and going down with a sinking ship (or maybe just hiring more people to keep bailing it out).
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I should clarify that this observation pertains to established businesses, usually larger ones. Startups tend to embrace new tech wholeheartedly. When starting a business, there’s no line between your work and personal life. Those first years are all consuming, and anything that will make a Founders like easier is quickly embraced. There also isn’t the ‘old school’ way of doing things that needs to be undone and rearranged to make way for the new.
This is the reason startups pose a real threat to even the largest organisations. They’re able to meet the markets needs in a more efficient and cost-effective way, they are utilising technology to create a better customer experience.?
If forward thinking leaders within your business advocate for technological progress, it’s a sign that you’re falling behind your competitors in terms of capability. If your business takes too long to adapt to change, you may completely lose touch with your customers and your ability to solve their evolving problems.
I don’t know about you, but there’s no way I could trade in my iPhone and go back to a 5110. Nostalgia aside, there’s a reason they don’t make them anymore. They just cannot compete with the functionality of phones today.?
As a final thought, consider the impact it will have on your business if a competitor embraces the equivalent of the latest iPhone before you do. They will be running rings around you while you’re still playing snake – metaphorically of course! :0)
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2 年I strongly disagree. Cannot compete with newer phones has nothing to do with production stop. I can't prove it, but is seems illogical to me that a manufacturer would stop producing a phone model because of old tech. If anything they stop producing because of lack of demand. If people still want a specific model, the demand remain high enough, so why would they stop make them as long as demand is high enough ?! Don't answer that.