Mobile Strategy - An Enterprise Revolution

So enough talk about how Mobile is going to change your personal world, and the ecommerce world, what about the enterprise IT world?  They are still fairly entrenched in Windows and LAMP based infrastructure and will probably be for some time.  But this doesn’t mean mobile is out in these worlds.  Anyone in IT, even at smaller companies, will tell you that there is a lot of activity going on to bring mobile into the fold and it is driven from the executive suite.  Why?  Mobile is the best thing since sliced bread for the sales force, and sales drives business.  But mobile, to a certain extent is a nightmare for the IT professional trying to lock down every portal and defend against the increasingly sophisticated attacks coming at them in volume these days.  So applaud any IT group that is taking on mobile - it ain’t easy.  But one of the very interesting things coming out of all of this is that the IT approach being taught and increasingly adopted these days is to design more flexibility into the infrastructure in the first place so that IT can better keep up with the rapidly evolving world of mobile.  And the coolest part of this is that with new flexibility in the enterprise IT framework, you open yourself to a whole new world of opportunity on the enterprise side that was just tough to get into back in the day when the IT manager kept a permanent “GO AWAY” sign on their front door for any new vendor.  And of course, where there is new opportunity and new flexibility, and less rigid, lock-down control, innovation flourishes, new companies emerge, and the world changes, again.