IT organisations should use mobile development projects as a means to re-energise their IT department and formalise their move to agile methods. By failing to do so, organisations risk increasing technical debt. 

  IT organisations need to embrace mobile development, deliver private application stores, and embrace their deployment on consumer devices. But in doing so, they need to manage security, ownership and deployment.

Set the base hardware of your no downtime infrastructure: This can be achieved in a number of ways but essentially comes down to one key ingredient – being able to create a fluid pool of hardware resources that can easily accessed and switched on and off.