Michael Mordhorst

Investigation into current and future requirements and influences of mobile business applications within Enterprise Mobility Michael Mordhorst

Master's Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,8, Henley Business School University of Reading, language: English, abstract: The thesis at hand is about current and future requirements and influences of business apps within Enterprise Mobility. The main objective is to provide recommendations for Trigon Consulting, a German IT consultancy, who needs a strategy to approach mobility market best. The recommendations include a service portfolio as well as an approach based on results of the investigation. The investigation has been conducted via interviews and focused on current and potential business apps user of different industries, job levels and company sizes. The questions contained topics from four dimensions: economic, technical, process and social. These perspectives structure the whole thesis so to say not only the investigation, but also literature review and analysis. Based on the conclusion of the investigation the recommendation suggests a service portfolio with three building blocks: Readiness Check, Transition Management and Advanced Mobility. The Readiness Check is based on the conclusion that companies need the right mobile strategy which supports the overall business goals and creates real business value. In addition most of the companies are not familiar with mobility and need therefore help to introduce a sufficient and reliable mobility environment within limited investment effort. For these reasons the Readiness Check is a consecutive offering with three services. The Enterprise Mobility Strategy service helps companies aligning their mobility strategy to the overall business strategy. The Use Case service is important to find, evaluate and prioritise appropriate scenarios for the usage of business apps. Along the Transition Approach service Trigon should be able to give advice how a company will be transformed into a mobilised enterprise. After the analysis part, the Transition Management proposal s