As enterprise mobile apps shift from their small, task-oriented focus to more complex functions, there seems to be a new area of application development from which business apps can drawn inspiration: mobile games.

And, no, that doesn’t mean flinging an angry bird into a pile of paperwork. According to CIO, Alex Caccia, president of Marmalade, a an app development company, believes that having mobile gaming experience can actually help developers working on apps for enterprise businesses.

The issue, Caccia notes, is that often the business professionals make a fairly common assumptions about games: they are time wasters meant for shutting off your brain and losing yourself in unimportant, unproductive activity.

However, the opposite is true: games actually push creativity and get the brain moving. And it’s inherently human to seek out puzzles, working out tasks in the format of a game.

And besides – two of the fastest moving and high-grossing areas of development today are mobile and gaming. When building enterprise apps, it would be wise to borrow experience from the best.

See more details at CIO.