While writing this article and closing off the discussion on enterprise mobility, I stumbled upon a very interesting article (Thanks Twitter!) on “consumerisation” of the enterprise. Consumerisation refers to an increasing trend for new information technologies to first emerge in the consumer market and then follow into the enterprises and government institutions.

Developing a mobile application follows standard application design practices, i.e. inception, planning, analysis and design, development, testing and deployment. Mobile application development is made more complex due to decisions regarding which device the application will be rolled out to and the commensurate development effort that brings.