As much as we might think enterprise mobility has reached a relatively mature state, my experience tells me otherwise. We may have achieved solid footing when it comes to managing devices and building the infrastructure to deploy apps to employees. But actually building, maintaining and extending apps is another story altogether.
Today, we have the most mobile workforce in our history, with over 80% of workers not seated behind a desk. Many organizations are making strides to equip these workers with apps to help them be more productive, using mobile to reengineer business processes or to create new avenues to get work done. Yes, we’ve delivered out-of-the-box apps from companies like Box, Concur and Microsoft to remotely access standard corporate systems. But much progress remains to be made in delivering custom mobile applications to support unique business processes; as per a recent Apperian/CITO Research report, over 70% of enterprises still provide fewer than ten custom mobile apps—across all workers.
And when those apps are developed, they often become one-and-done, which is not a great outcome for either college basketball or enterprise mobile apps. It may be glib, but it’s true. Most companies expend considerable time, money and effort delivering apps to employees, but never get the care and feeding (or budget) to improve and enhance them. Yet these same users are accustomed to getting frequent updates from the apps they use in their daily personal lives. And it’s easy to notice when some apps change frequently, and others don’t.
One may claim these apps don’t need to be updated frequently, but the most common reasons why are rarely true:
“Our business processes aren’t changing, so why should the app?”
“Who cares if people complain? They have to use what we give them if they still want to work here.”
“We lost out on funding this year, so let’s roll it into next year’s budget.”
Here are the five top reasons you need to refresh your enterprise mobile app(s).
If any of this resonates with your situation, or if it’s been more than 12 months since your last release, it’s high time for a refresh. Partner with Propelics to analyze your app and devise a Refresh Plan that makes sense for you and comes with a fixed-time, fixed-price estimate. During our App Scoping and Prototype Kickstart we perform:
Please feel free to give us a call today. We’ll start you off with a free 1-hour consultation to get the ball rolling.
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