Companies struggle to choose between building a mobile app and implementing a mobile website. The decision becomes a battle shrouded in competing points of view and often a lack of customer information about the benefits and risks of each. To help you make the best choice possible, we have painted the differences between mobile app and mobile Web in black and white: Use mobile apps for engagement; use mobile Web for reach.
Mobile apps provide unique functionality, while mobile Web is best for a wide variety of devices and broad audience appeal. In practice, the path to this decision (app versus Web) is very nuanced. Development leaders must ask the right questions during the customer experience design phase to ensure downstream technical compatibilities. By conveying the appropriate pros and cons of each approach, technical experts will enable the design rather than act as a bottleneck.
Regardless of the decision to leverage mobile apps versus mobile Web, technology leaders must be prepared for two major shifts that will dictate long-term digital experience success: four-tier architecture and Agile. Four-tier engagement replaces desktop Web's three-tier model to enable greater fluidity between systems of record both behind, and outside of the firewall. Agile development will provide development teams with the organized approach to meet faster cycle times while learning to iterate against evolving customer experience priorities.
Agenda:
- Customer experience and eBusiness priorities are linked to growth. The pressure is on for technology leaders to execute.
- Customer experience design cycles demand early technology subject matter expert (SME) input.
- Mobile decision-makers need to understand the pros, cons, and caveats of apps and Web. Use Forrester's work as a starting point.
- Decide. Use a team-based, data driven approach to make the best choice.
- Rebuild your development mindset around a four-tier engagement strategy.
- Iterate, iterate, iterate. Agile is necessary in a mobile-centric world.
Key takeaways:
- Communicate the pros, cons, and caveats of both apps and Web.
- Align the right team members to decide on app, Web, or both.
- Promote a four-tier engagement strategy.
- Justify an Agile development approach.
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