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1. 10 Things Every IT Leader Should Know
to Survive & Thrive in the App Revolution

2. The App Paradigm Reaches
the Enterprise
Today, companies need lean,
fast, low-risk app development.
From numerous perspectives, the environment for
corporate IT is undergoing fundamental changes.

3. The Pace of Change
is Unrelenting
Demand for new applications has outstripped
most organizations’ IT capacity.
Users have a hard time articulating
requirements upfront. Developers have
a hard time keeping up with changing
business needs.

4. TODAY’S MANDATE :
Create Apps Quickly That Support Your
Business & Truly Serve Your Users
The following are four key attributes and benefits
of a contemporary app strategy:
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Speed/Simplicity
Social Productivity
Enterprise Scale
Cloud-Centricity

5. 1.
Differentiate Your Business
Through Apps
Commodity apps are only good
for commodity needs.
Don’t build quick, lightweight apps with the tools
and technologies meant for massive core systems.

6. 2.
Adapt Your Apps or They’ll Die
Design for today – adapt as your
business evolves.
Think of enterprise apps as living organisms that
survive by creating business value. If they can’t
adapt easily to new business needs, they no
longer generate value.

7. 3.
Empower the Business
Create a culture of innovation and
empower the domain experts.
Business process experts know what the application
needs to do, and technical experts know how it
should work. Both are equally important
throughout development projects.

8. 4.
App Development is a Team Sport
Support collaborative
development that incorporates
different perspectives.
Success in building business apps is predicated on
the ability to incorporate the perspectives of
developers, business experts, analysts, and users
throughout your organization.

9. 5.
Let Users Take the Starring Role
Create a feedback mechanism
that lets users know you’re
listening.
The Facebook generation will tell you what they
think. Take advantage of it, count on it, and make
it part of any project.

10. 6.
Add Apps – & Breathe New Life Into
Legacy Systems
Build on top of what you have.
Don’t rip and replace existing systems; build new
functionality on top of them to extend your return
on legacy IT investments.

11. 7.
Remember: Speed is Everything
Address your users’ needs
quickly, before they inevitably
change.
The greatest hidden danger of traditional app
development is the uncounted opportunity cost of
slow application development.

12. 8.
Leverage a Multi-Channel Approach
Don’t get distracted by “one-off”
mobile projects.
Yes, you need quick and smart answers to respond
to mobile needs, but just as important, you need a
strategy to develop apps that are integrated with
your overall business process.

13. 9.
It’s Not About the Size of Your
Development Team Anymore
There’s more to solving a challenge
that throwing bodies at it.
Leverage technology to empower your business and
process experts. You’ll be surprised how much they
will accomplish.

14. 10.
Don’t Complicate Development with
Technology Decisions
Focus development on the business
need, not the technology selection.
Many IT organizations are giving careful consideration to a new
paradigm for corporate application development that has
emerged as one of the fastest and most cost-effective
technologies: application Platform as a Service (aPaaS).

15. Are your ready
for the App Revolution?
Get started by creating an environment that provides:
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Speed/Simplicity
Social Productivity
Enterprise Scale
Cloud-Centricity

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