PointAbout has a series of stellar whitepapers to help enterprises navigate the creation of enterprise-grade mobile applications.

The first step to creating a mobile application is to read these whitepapers and provide us with a requirements document, or even a few paragraphs describing your project.

If you don’t have a full requirements document, we can help. We have an entire process that we use with large organizations to help you figure it out – starting with ideation & brainstorming sessions, identifying stakeholders, picking the right approach(es), such as apps vs. mobile web, doing design iterations, getting the project scoped and versioned correctly, and then implemented, QA’d and delivered, and we always do a post-mortem review to set us up to work even more closely after the first project. So, if you already have some ideas sketched out, we always like to start there, but if you don’t, we’ll help you get everything figured out.

Ideally, you’ll already have set a budget aside for your project, although that is often not the case. However, much of what we end up doing will be driven largely by how much of a budget you want to put towards mobile.

Here are a few whitepaper resources to get you started:

• 14 things to know and do when starting a mobile project
• Whitepaper on avoiding common mobile development pitfalls
• Case study highlighting copious learning from the Cars iPhone app
• Case study from an automotive thought leader on mobile within the enterprise
• Whitepaper on NFC or Near-Field Communication and what it involves
• Whitepaper on the Windows Phone 7 platform
• Whitepaper on expanding to other mobile development platforms; going from iOS to Android
• Whitepaper explaining the difference in web apps, native apps, and the mobile web, with additional focus on HTML5 and its offerings

Also, we have a slide on what the mobile landscape looks like, called the Mobile Pyramid. It’s proven to be a very powerful way to explain mobile to those who don’t live it every day like we do. You’re welcome to use it if you find it useful when explaining mobile within your organization; there’s a PDF & PPT link below the image you can grab.