There is no business function available on an iPad that has not been available on a laptop for the last 20 years. It is not surprising that the iPads were delivered to "the leadership" and then credited with solving all problems, despite the fact that "the leadership" did very little of the actual work involved. This is common everywhere. Executive tote around their iPads and have competitions with other executives over who has the coolest home-grown apps. Then they sit down for a meeting and proceed to use their iPad to play games.