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BYOD adoption and mobile-first initiatives are changing the patterns in enterprise application development, with the balance between BYOD inhibitors and accelerators swinging to the latter. This shift to mobile, enabling enterprises to harness the fast pace of technological progress in consumer electronics, has profound implications for the application development community, with enterprise mobile app development taking centre stage.

Enterprise mobility is more than just software or hardware; it's a journey undertaken by business to realise the benefits of a mobile workforce. There is a beginning to the journey, but more often than not no end. As with the introduction of other initiatives this journey tends to be circular. Here is one way of categorising the key aspects of an enterprise mobility journey.

I wish I could tell you that mobilising an enterprise was always easy. Like with most things worth doing, there are challenges to success. Now, I don't want to put you off mobility in any way - I did, however, want to group the tricks and traps into some sensible categories. Here are the challenges to enterprise mobility...

The popular perception of IT within government might be one of glacial innovation and even slower adoption - but we think the Feds are getting a bum rap. Our friends at Fixmo are right in the midst of managing the transformative impact of mobility on government. Granted, it's no easy task, but the appeal of going mobile is proving irresistible to myriad government agencies and organisations.

Leading up to the announcement there were plenty of rumours about a forthcoming Facebook Phone along with speculation that Facebook was moving into hardware. In such a dynamic space I would never rule anything out but it does seem sensible for Facebook to "Play" (pardon the pun) to their strengths.

During many mobile meetings, presentations, and discussions I've come across a collection of "Rules For Enterprise Mobility". These rules cover topics like selecting mobility tools, types of users and applications, mobility needs and a lot more. Let's start with three rules of three...

Over the last few years consumer devices have overtaken enterprise devices in a lot of ways. Many of the features originally developed for the enterprise are now leveraged in mobile phones that we all have. Does this mean it's a no brainer when it comes to choosing a device for an enterprise mobility project? Far from it - more choice brings more debate and more confusion.

Keeping up with enterprise mobility news, I was skimming a Jack Madden blog post, and about halfway through I had to look back at the top to make sure I didn’t have the date wrong. It said March 22, 2013, but I thought I’d been reading something from the archive.