MANAGING By: Anne Bonaparte A Mobile Workforce Management concepts that can increase the productivity and efficiency of mobile workers. for more info Visit www.cmmonline.com and type in search keyword: Technology . For more information on related products, visit www.cmmonline.com , select BUYERS’ GUIDE from the main navigation bar, and enter keyword: Productivity . While mobile technology can help office managers communicate with mobile workers, strong commu-nication and feedback are still the keys to a successful operation. 22 CM/Cleaning & Maintenance Management ® • September 2013 Image Courtesy of Alexey Klementiev/iStockphoto/Thinkstock Anne Bonaparte is chief executive officer (CEO) of Xora Inc., North America’s #1 market leader in mobile workforce management. The company’s flagship product, Xora StreetSmart, is a suite of configurable mobile apps and a web-based manage-ment application. As the industry’s leading mobile productivity solution, Xora StreetSmart helps more than 16,000 organizations meet their productivity and service goals for about $1 per user per day. Visit Xora on the web at www.Xora.com. M Mobile workers in a broad array of industries, in-cluding building and property maintenance, are in-creasingly relying on smartphones and tablets with mobile apps to help them work smarter and faster in the field. These productivity tools are especially important for employees who spend the vast majority, or even all of their working hours, at customer locations or traveling between them. For example, a 100-person company based on
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