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Weekly recap: 10 signs your IT department has tunnel vision, mobilizing enterprise apps, and more…

EducationEvery week, I share the most interesting and useful tech articles that I’ve found over the past week. This week’s top articles focus on IT tunnel vision, mobilizing enterprise applications, and more. I hope you find them useful:

CIOs say mobilizing enterprise apps is not that easy
What’s keeping you from mobilizing your enterprise applications? Is it the cost? Is it too difficult? Do you not know where to start? If so, here’s some good news: Mobilizing your enterprise apps isn’t difficult. This page explains a simple way to quickly create mobile web app versions of your existing enterprise applications.

10 signs your IT department has tunnel vision
What’s keeping your IT department from driving business innovation? It’s a great question, but you might not like the answer. As this article explains, the problem often lies in…the IT department itself.

Maximize your chances of BI success
We hear all about the importance of Business Intelligence (BI) and why every company needs it. The problem is, most BI implementations still fail. The article above addresses a pressing question: How can you implement BI with the greatest chance of success?

Mozilla joins the mobile OS game
As I mentioned in a recent post, Mozilla is one of a few companies releasing new mobile operating systems. Though, unlike other operating systems, all apps running on Firefox OS are open web apps. What does that mean for businesses who have already created native apps for other platforms? You need a mobile web app if you want to reach Firefox OS. What does it mean for those companies who have built mobile web apps? Nothing. Your mobile web apps will work just fine on Firefox OS (or any future OS for that matter).