This week’s big enterprise story is Apple’s new partnership with Deloitte in which the companies are collaborating on new services that put iOS firmly inside the digital transformation of enterprise IT. I spoke with Mike Brinker, Global Digital Leader, Deloitte Digital, who talked a little more about the deal:

Q: Why now?

“Deloitte began doubling-down on digital transformation around 2010 with the acquisition of a mobile digital agency,” Brinker explains. “Since that time Deloitte Digital has grown to over 10,000 practitioners and we now have over 1 billion iPhones sold. The last five years have been dominated by helping our clients better engage with their customers, while leading organizations have been using mobile iOS devices in the enterprise in limited ways. We believe we are at an inflection point in history, like we were with the Internet in 2002, where the focus is rapidly shifting to transform the enterprise and empowering employees to now work the way they live.”

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