For a decade we've been hailing the ascendance of mobile for business, celebrating CIOs who can spell "4G", and waving the victory banner high above every technology project that extends beyond an Ethernet port. I know. I've stitched many banners.What I didn't realize is we've been hanging the wrong banners over the wrong projects. In a world where more than a quarter of all human beings own a smartphone (heck, there are 300 million more mobile devices than people), mobile data traffic is increasing by 50% every year, and more than 50 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple's App Store, it should come as no surprise that stuff we do at work is every bit as mobile as stuff we do at play. It wasn't until this week that I realized how absurd it is to tout mobile projects when in fact the only ones that are notable today are immobile.

Brad, CIO at a healthcare company in Ohio, told me something that brought a tear to my eye: