Mobility is about more than wireless connectivity. Mobility fundamentally changes what we connect and how we connect it. It also provides the opportunity to change how we engage with our employees, customers and partners. Mobile, while providing great opportunity, also provides security and management risks as well as business process challenges. To capitalize on the potential benefits of mobile, IT and business leaders must build a business strategy that incorporates mobile attributes into business processes to create differentiation, speed to market, and competitive advantage.
The selection of the appropriate processes and application to mobilize is the most important element a business must master in order to reap the benefits of mobility. A business must master both the technology choices as well as how business processes should be changed to take advantage of the anywhere access to data which mobility enables. The IT strategy should take into consideration several key areas including mobile security, management, and application development methods.
