Mobility Strategy

Three Simple Steps to Building an Enterprise Mobile Strategy

In the Enterprise we tend to over-complicate even the simplest of things.  A simple process becomes convoluted, onerous and even unmanageable once the enterprise bureaucracy takes over. Let me give you three simple steps to guide your efforts towards building a strawman mobile strategy.  Please note this is at the simplest level and there is [...]

December 3, 2012 Read the full article →

Mobile Customer Engagement: Some Initial Considerations

What does engagement truly mean? We talk about it a lot don’t we? It’s the buzz word. We can be sure to slide into every conversation if we drop the customer engagement key words. People make money selling it; a lot of it. Yet many have not stopped to really think what engagement means to [...]

November 30, 2012 Read the full article →

Value and Experience in Enterprise Mobility

Value and experience are not mutually exclusive in enterprise mobility.  These two can actually co-exist and live happily inside your organization and should both be of equal importance when you formulate (plan, develop, work on, stress over) your mobile strategy. In fact I argue that these two are dependent on each other: The better the end user [...]

November 29, 2012 Read the full article →

Mobility – it is not about what you think!

We sometimes forget about the one critical component in enterprise mobility; the one thing that allows the enterprise to be out there and extend itself beyond its four walls.  Sorry… It is not the technology.  Technology is great but it is only a means to an end. It is more important than technology. More important [...]

November 29, 2012 Read the full article →

The Year of the Mobile Enterprise – 2012

I have always been excited by massive change.   As a high school and undergraduate student I loved to read about historical turning points, revolutions, political upheavals … where things were turned upside down and the system/structure/government that was left in its place was completely different from what had been there before. It would appear [...]

December 31, 2011 Read the full article →

Mobile Strategy vs Mobility Strategy

I have been thinking about this difference the last few days. Some people use the terms interchangeably as if they mean the same thing. They don’t mean the same thing… I am still cementing my thoughts on these differences but I think it is a good exercise for all of us if we are able [...]

August 5, 2011 Read the full article →

Thinking About RIM, its people and its future

First of all let me tell you something that has been heavily on my mind over the last week or so – RIM is NOT Nortel.  I will write more about that later on, but I believe that Research In Motion and its BlackBerry line of products and services has a long life left in [...]

July 29, 2011 Read the full article →

Are Mobile Apps Disposable?

Another way of posing this question is ‘should mobile apps be considered disposable?’ The answer is no. If your mobile strategy is such that you are considering putting something (ie. an app) together as a quick fix to coming into the game late … then you really don’t have a mobile strategy. Please don’t build [...]

July 19, 2011 Read the full article →