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Upwardly Mobile Kavitha Nair Kavitha Nair is a business journalist specialising in information technology and processes. She is a graduate of the University of Mumbai. M obility is the new poster boy of the connected world and businesses the world over are trying to figure out a way to harness its potential for competitive advantage. With the number of smartphone users worldwide pegged at 1.2 billion and counting, the marketplace is hungrier for mobile applications and content and is forcing the services sector to compress IT innovation cycles. Agile software development methodologies now need to be more agile and iterative as development cycles for mobile applications get more and more demanding. The market’s impatience for mobile solutions is now taking the decision-making away from CIOs to heads of lines of businesses. There is a fundamental shift in the way technology is designed and delivered to a customer. User experience on the Consendre mod eugait alit luptati sisisisit augait num iusti facidunt ipsumsan el eraestrud exerat ad onulla cor ing eumsandre ex elit "If you want portability, mobility, and access, then you buy it." – Sean Parker atetue tet ulla feu feum niamconEm ea commodiam ad tem dolortio Utat lum quisim et, quissi.Volobore m iurero dolobore. 12 ●● p12-18 mobility.indd 12 www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk 21/3/13 16:32:42 http://www.outsourcemagazine.co.uk

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of outsource issue 31

Upwardly Mobile
Keys to Driving Supply Chain Outsourcing Success
Biography of a Carve-Out
Culture and Values
Redefining the Law Firm Delivery Model
Sharing the Glory
Norn Ironman
Breaking the Outsourcing Conundrum
NOA Round-Up
Back from the Summit
Losing the Race Before You Put On Your Trainers
Innovate to Accelerate
Comparing Clouds
People Power
Making an Impact
Home or Away?
Dead and Buried?
So What Now?
The Legal View
Top Ten
NelsonHall Round-Up
Sourcing Sage
Online Round-Up
The Deal Doctor
Inside Source
The Last Word

outsource issue 31