• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.55-66
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• 2018

Early smart-work of company K was a technology-led way of applying ICT such as smart phones and mobile devices to business. After company K perceived the limitations of ICT-driven smart work, it propelled the work-smart, doing a work smart toward the way that human beings become central and a creative organizational culture is engendered. Company K propelled work-smart strategy in eight categories: simplification of data requirements, establishment efficient meeting culture, streamlining reporting and approval process, simplified document creation, overtime decrease, spreading flexible work system, settlement of healing leave, creating work-smart place. Company K set up an organizational culture secretariat dedicated to work-smart promotion and selected task priorities in consideration of urgency and effectiveness. Owing to such efforts, the company K's work-smart index rose sharply to 72 points this year from 56 points in the previous year. At the organizational culture survey, employees responded that organizational culture improved in all area. For a better future, company K analyzed its work-smart outcomes and planned progressively to improve its work-smart efforts based on employees opinions. This case study will serve as a guideline, for companies to make efforts to going forward to today work-smart beyond yesterday smart-work.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.99-121
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• 2011

With the advancement of mobile information technology, the era of smart work emerges as a means for enabling us to overcome temporal and spatial constraints. Thanks to smart mobile devices with seamless access, organizations can assign tasks to employees and provide services to the appropriate customers in mobile environments. In addition, smart work facilitates the improvement of coordination and collaboration among individuals and groups performing organizational tasks. The dramatic performance improvement is manifest by utilization of smart work in organizations. Therefore, the interest in the introduction of smart work is growing. With the lens of time-geography, this study investigates what makes smart work successful. This research, especially, concentrates on the processes for overcoming the temporal and spatial constraints in the field. A case study of the Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Talk and Flash (SMRT T&F) is developed and analyzed through the framework of time-geography and the implementation processes and success factors of SMRT T&F are investigated.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.187-196
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• 2011

This study found the power analysis and increase plan of Smart work industry out. We did the internet survey with 117 experts of Smart work and analyzed International competitive power and Smart work marketability. The results was as follows: First, Experts recognized the growth about Cloud computing industry so that they were most high. Second, The thing which the earning of Smart work industry is high appeared a Security industry, Cloud computing industry, and Mobile office industry etc sequence. Third, The Smart work industry which an international technique power level is high appeared in a Smart e-learning industry, Mobile office industry, and Security industry etc sequence. Lastly, An Smart work industry which the concentration supports in the government dimension Security industry, Cloud computing industry, Smart work user SW industry, and Smart e-learning industry etc sequence. This research products will use for there even though it prepares a concentration support industry in the government dimension an activation policy.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.60-72
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• 2013

Rapid development of information and communication technologies leads firms to take 'smart work' into serious consideration as a new way of working in coming knowledge and information society. However, some jobs may be fit for smart work while some may be not. A $2{\times}2$ framework for smart work readiness assessment is developed in this study through the review of extant literature and a series of focus group activities. Two critical dimensions of smart work are derived and presented as a result: smartness (knowledge versus data) and mobility (mobile versus static). Knowledge intensive jobs with possible mobility seem to be the target group that can be easily converted to smart work while mobile workers with interactive data processing devices seem to be already doing smart work. As mobility is a critical presumption for work to be flexible in terms of time and place, jobs with no mobility are assessed here as not ready for smart work at least at present. This framework is experimentally applied against the published job statistics 2011 in Korea, and used to estimate the number of workers ready for smart work. As a conclusion, discussions on policy implications and further research issues are made at the end.

• Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.305-313
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• 2017

Recently, as changes in the office environment, office furniture are changing at a rapid pace. With the development of various smart devices specialized in work type, the concepts of office environment and office furniture are diversified. New furniture design is presented with the new concept of work format and changes to the space, an example of a compact single-person storage space is required.

• Architectural research
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.27-33
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• 2017

Advances in information and mobile technologies have changed the traditional firm ways of working very flexible, collaborative and innovative, resulting in the changes in work place structures and layouts. Despite the growing body of literature examining the novel ways of working, which is called smart work, there is little academic attentions paid to the spatial aspects of new work places, namely smart offices and smart work centers. This research explores the spatial changes of work places that improve business efficiency and collaboration among workers suitable for the novel ways of working. Conducting in-depth field surveys on selected cases, we analyzed the changes in spatial structure and operation policies of smart offices and smart work centers. From this survey, we observed that the new work places under study take various novel spatial forms and they have flexible operating policies such as flexible seating and flexible work hours. We also found that it would be difficult to change existing business practices and typical ways of performing tasks, without changing the bureaucratic spatial designs and layouts. Future studies are suggested to examine how spatial structures and layouts of offices have impacts on space utilization, collaboration, creativity, and job satisfaction.

• Journal of Construction Engineering and Project Management
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• v.2 no.3
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• pp.48-57
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• 2012

With increasing number of serious construction disasters such as death, a safety management in real-time is more required recently. One of the ways to support the needs, a convergence with Information Technology (IT) has been noticed. Although number of inefficiencies including a limitation of IT equipment (weight, control inconveniences) has been concerned, data exchanging and processing fields have been improved at a wide range with an advance of mobile communication and an introduction of smart mobiles that are simple and convenient. In this research, a framework is realized in connection with smart mobile to find the problems of current safety management and derive demands in order to support effective safety management. Two smart mobile applications, Safety Management application and Safety Guideline application, enable a real-time safety management and less re-work by provided safety information.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.415-426
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• 2013

Smart work has recently introduced as a way to solve problems such as greenhouse gas emissions, low birth rate and aging as well as to improve productivity. Because of development of ICT infrastructure and the proliferation of smart devices, the mobile office has the most commonly used within types of smart work in Korea. But the adoption of the mobile office in small businesses is only half of that of large corporations. The security issue appears to be one of the biggest obstacles to the introduction of smart work in small businesses. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to analyze the information security factors that should be considered when the mobile office is introduced to small businesses. By analyzing the previous studies, the information security factors of the mobile office are classified 5 groups composed of 24 factors. 5 groups are terminals, applications and platforms, networks, servers and users. According to the survey result using AHP, 'User' was drawn to the most important group, and 'Data Encryption', 'Wireless LAN Control' and 'Terminal Recovery When Leaving' were drawn to the important information security factors of the mobile office among 24 factors.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.43-51
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• 2013

Human being does work to live out and they have their private life because human has sociality. Both work and life are important to live out but they are on the trade-off relationship. Because keeping the balance between work and life is too hard, it has been interested by academic and practical areas. Definition of Work-life balance here is that balance or imbalance arising between work and life has no negative impact on their daily life. Above all, Work-life balance is important because it is strongly related to identity. Recently, the introduction of the mobile office system has emerged as a way to solve the problem of work-life balance. It is based on the teleworking which was formerly generated. Teleworking is to perform the work in the employee's home or office space set aside without going into the workplace. Concept of the mobile office system here is not only using portable devices during work for convenience but also the system which is designed for the performance. Thanks to the diffusion of smart devices(smart phone, tablet pc), mobile office system has been spread. Although the importance of mobile office systems is emerging, there are few researches about it. Even they mostly focus on the standpoint of performance of mobile office system. However, Quality of life is as important as the performance. As a part of Quality of Life field, Work-life balance is the closest to employee's quality of life. So this study aims to examine the effect of the use of mobile office systems on work-life balance. To do so, we try to find factors effecting Work-life balance from existing studies and then set a research model. We set the use of mobile office systems as independent variables which are divided by use of function, use by location and use by situation. There are four dependent variables - sense of self command, sense of balance, solving work problem, solving life problem. We collected data from employees who are using mobile office systems on their job. 215 people were participated in the survey and we used multiple regression analysis to verify our research model. Results show that every independent variable has no impact on solving work problem while they have slight impact on the other dependent variables. Especially use on the business trip has significant effect on dependent variables. It means that there is a possibility use of mobile office system could control the employee's quality of life and system should be evolved until it covers even critical tasks. Also, support for mobile office system -education, encouragement-should be provided. By mobile office system is maturing, future research would be done.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.145-157
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• 2014

The advent of ubiquitous connectivity from smart devices and network is changing the lifestyles of workers and work patterns. However, the smart work for the knowledge workers and mobile workers is not yet popular due to not enough services in supporting smart work and difficulties in employing smart work. For these reasons, it is necessary to study the current smart work industry to provide the bases for incubating smart work industry and increasing the smart work adoption. In this study, first, we reviewed and analyzed the smart work services. And then, we classified the smart work industry based on their services. Second, we conducted a survey study to identify the factors that affect on the adoption of smart work. Finally, we provided the current adoption rate of smart work services and discussed the Willing-To-Use, cost, and barriers from the smart work adoption.