Mobile Computing in Business: Opportunities, Challenges, and Solutions

Running head: BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
BUSINESS RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
MOBILE COMPUTING IN BUSINESS

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Research Objectives...................................................................................................................2
Research Scope..........................................................................................................................3
Literature Review.......................................................................................................................3
Opportunities and Challenges.................................................................................................4
Possible Solutions...................................................................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9
Appendix..................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The advancements in the field of technology have increased the opportunities for the
organizations to compete more successfully in the market. The organizations are regularly
shifting towards the enhancements of their technological resources for improving the
performance. In order to shift towards these advancements, the organizations also have to
face a number of challenges. Earlier, the organizations used to perform the business
operations with the help of web-based applications. But, in the present scenario, increasing
use of smartphones has introduced the use of mobile technology into the business operations
and processes (Rahimi et al, 2014). This study aims to describe the literature written related
to the challenges and opportunities existed in the industry when the processes of an
organization are based on the mobile computing and advancements. The study describes a
brief explanation of the objective and scope of the entire project and the review of literature
which has been provided by the economists after carrying out vast research on the topic. At
the end of the report, a conclusion has been drawn to provide an overview to the entire study
and to frame the overall concept that can be understood in an easy manner to the user of this
paper.
Research Objectives
 To understand the concept of mobile computing
 To understand the use of mobile computing in the business organizations engaged in
different type of activities.
 To find out the challenges faced by the organizations at the time of adopting or after
adopting mobile computing practices in the business operations.
 To access the opportunities of using mobile computing for the different type of
businesses.
 To access the characteristics of mobile computing and the suitability of such
characteristics as per the requirement of different businesses (Xue et al, 2016).
 To identify the challenges regarding the mobile computing for the different business
firms
 To provide certain and appropriate solutions regarding the existing challenges that can
help the organizations form any type of harm or misuse of data.
 To find out the real-life implication of the theory provided by authors and economist
of the information technology sector.

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 To develop the total understanding of the latest mobile computing technology this is
being used by different sector organizations successfully.
 To provide an appropriate base for the future research about the extended use of
mobile computing and other technologies in the business (Vittapu et al, 2015).
Research Scope
The introduction of mobile computing has become essential for the business organizations
due to the upgraded of technology day by day. The organizations are required to implement
this particular technology in order to enhance the productivity of the employees and well as
the capacity of the business operations. But, before implementing this technology, the
management of an organization needs to access all the challenges and limitation to use
mobile computing in the business (Qi and Gani, 2012). This project mainly increases the
level of understanding and knowledge related to the use of mobile computing devices and the
fact the how the devices should be used to deal with the challenges in an effective manner
and to take the advantages of opportunities. Along with this, the project always provides the
knowledge of a wide range of mobile computing devices that can be used by almost all the
organization in a generalized manner to perform the tasks that are almost common to all the
businesses. Furthermore, some recommendations have also been provided that can be used by
the organization to deal with the challenges while maintaining the profitability and success of
the business in the long run.
Literature Review
The term mobile computing technology can be understood as the technology which is
specially developed for use smartphones. However, on the basis of findings of Pejovic and
Musolesi (2015), it is also said that smartphones work only as a part of mobile computing
technology. Mobile computing can be defined as the existence of cloud computing services in
the smartphones. This technology is used to transmit the set of data and voice with the help of
portable devices and wireless network. Mobile computing was previously used for only the
communication purpose. But in the present scenario, it is being used for keeping the official
record of the employees and often used to track them in case of the organizations providing
work from home.
According to Mitra et al. (2015), this helps the organization to possess a huge amount of
ability and mobility to have the computing system at all time. There are different sectors of
the industry where this technology can be used like online food delivery organizations, cab