Staying on top of business news, following tech\r\ndevelopments, managing tasks, brainstorming solutions, and even watching the\r\nweather halfway across the world: All in a day’s work for today’s leaders. Here are five apps that can help.
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Mobile and tablet apps are available for most smartphone and\r\ntablet platforms, but the functionality differs among them. The WSJ is the best\r\nway I’ve found to keep abreast of business and general news and to grab\r\ninteresting conversational nuggets that are useful everywhere from the\r\nboardroom to the barroom.
“Official” mobile\r\napps exist for Android and iOS. The iOS version even converts dictated tasks\r\nfrom Siri and allows you to set default criteria for them. Other platforms,\r\nincluding Windows 8, have third-party applications that sync with the web-based\r\nbackend.
iThoughts provides an easy way to flesh out an idea on the\r\nairplane or during a midnight bout of inspiration. Even if you have no interest\r\nin mind-mapping software, I highly recommend exploring the technique.
Aside from weather and time information, the app displays\r\nlarge weather patterns, like hurricanes, and lets you easily see the boundaries\r\nof night and day.
There may be cheaper ways to view this information,\r\nbut few combine pragmatic information with beauty for a mere three bucks.
Patrick Gray works for a leading global professional services firm, where he helps companies rapidly invent and launch new businesses. He is the author of Breakthrough IT: Supercharging Organizational Value through Technology as well as the companion e-book The Breakthrough CIO's Companion. He has spent over two decades providing strategy consulting services to Fortune 500 Companies and the world's top brands across the globe. Patrick can be reached at patrick.gray@prevoyancegroup.com. All opinions are his and may not represent those of his employer.
