This week’s case study comes from Regions Financial Corporation, a U.S. bank and financial services company based in Birmingham, Alabama. Regions faced a variety of challenges implementing its mobile strategy, including the cost of development and maintenance for multiple channels, scalability, and meeting its customers’ needs for an excellent user experience.

The significant growth of mobility, the growing, global emphasis in the healthcare industry to cut costs and improve patient outcomes, and the rising demand for quality care all play a role in the huge potential for mobile solutions provided by healthcare payers and providers. This revolution has already begun. Physicians globally and especially in the U.S. are recommending mobile health apps to patients. According to an eClinic survey of 2,291 doctors in January 2013, 89% of physicians would recommend a mobile health app to patients and 65% of physicians would recommend use of mobile health apps for medication adherence.

I attended the Gartner Customer Strategies and Technologies Summit in London this week, and wanted to share some of my top takeaways from this must-attend industry forum.

Google’s purchase of Nest, Facebook’s recent acquisition of virtual reality firm Oculus, Apple’s CarPlay – these are just a few headliners that are reinforcing the reality of the Internet of Things (IoT). But what does “Internet of Things” even mean, and why should we care, as both consumers and businesses?

By now, it’s universally accepted among CIOs that enterprise mobility is critical for their success, both near- and long-term. Mobility has been a top technology priority for CIOs for several years, right next to cloud, big data, and security strategies. And yet we’ve only begun to realize the full potential of the mobile enterprise that puts experience and engagement first.

This week’s case study comes to us from a large enterprise healthcare company. Faced with challenges including the high cost of maintaining apps, complex back-end integrations, and supporting all of today’s different digital channels, this organization chose Kony’s mobile solution for healthcare. “Kony offers an easy to use IDE and great multi-channel deployment process,” one team member reports, benefits which allowed this company to reduce its app development time by 25-49%.

The trials and tribulations of a single red button

Here it is – the gloves are off. The next battleground for our operating system Goliath has been set. Apple has struck the first blow with its ‘pictorial’ launch of CarPlay within its 7.1 release of iOS.

Robert Half Technology recently released the results from a survey of over 2300 CIOs from 23 major metropolitan areas in the U.S. Their responses on mobile strategy provide an interesting look into the state of mobility across the country today.