Author Archives: Brian Katz
Mobile First?
A lot of people like to talk about how to design apps, myself included. Many times they talk about the different languages that they should be building in or they start going on about how they should build for mobile only. They look at their developers and have them come up with a strategy for [...]
Disppearing Apps
We spend a lot of time talking about devices these days. Have you seen the new iPhone 5, the Samsung Galaxy S III, or how about that new one, what is it, the one with that really awesome camera. We think that the latest, newest, sexiest device will win the smartphone war and the enterprise [...]
A Rose By Any Other Name
I had a chance the other day to participate in a Twitter chat focused on the mobile business (#mobilebizchat). The topic of the chat was focused on Enterprise Mobile Apps. A bunch of questions were asked such as what are the barriers to deploying an enterprise mobile app, what are some of the benefits of [...]
Get IT Into The Game
I watched somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 soccer games this weekend as my daughter was playing in three of them. I spend many weekends like this throughout the year going to different tournaments that she is taking part in. As I watched one of the games today and the strategies being employed by the [...]
BYOD Required For Retention? Bollocks!!!
I sat in an interesting meeting today (this was actually written last night) with a couple of vendors whose stated goal was to talk about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) and how to make it easier to move in that direction within your company. We had barely gotten started when the presenter talked about one [...]
Apps vs Crapplications Part 2
Brian Madden recently wrote an excellent article on how to argue about html vs native apps as well as touch versus keyboard/mouse and made some great points. It is definitely worth a read. We do diverge a little bit in our thinking though when he gets to features vs focus in apps. He quotes me [...]
BYOD, The Secret Sauce
Site Note: We’d like to introduce you to Brian Katz. Brian is an EMF member who works at pharmaceutical giant Sanofi and has a great blog where he shares his thoughts on enterprise mobility. Brian has graciously allowed us to share those thoughts with you on this site. There are a lot of articles floating [...]
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