The transportation and logistics industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation as a consequence of increasing customer expectations, innovative use and adoption of new technologies and the explosion of data and devices. The growing importance of data coupled with the need to have real-time information on the state of the business has become the biggest challenge for the industry.

The average knowledge worker enjoys a measly five minutes of uninterrupted time and, once interrupted, half won’t even get back to what they were doing in the first place. Yet organizational expectations or social pressures make it hard to resist the urge to check incoming emails or text messages — pressing tasks be damned.