Implementing a BYOD Strategy: 10 Mistakes to Avoid

A bring-your-own-device (BYOD) strategy is an approach that allows employees, business partners and others to use personally selected and purchased client devices to execute enterprise applications and access data. It typically spans smartphones and tablets, but the strategy may also be used for PCs, including netbooks, notebooks or other portable connected devices. "BYOD strategies are the most radical change to the economics and the culture of client computing in business in decades," said David Willis, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. "The benefits of BYOD include creating new mobile workforce opportunities, increasing employee satisfaction, and reducing or avoiding costs." However, like anything else disruptive in business, there are many pitfalls if an enterprise—no matter what size—doesn't plan its BYOD strategy accordingly. For example, one of the major issues is that most mobile devices are designed to share data in the cloud and have no general-purpose file system for applications to share, increasing the potential for data to be easily duplicated between applications and moved between applications and the cloud. Here are 10 mistakes to avoid when implementing a BYOD strategy. Resources for this eWEEK slide show include Pankaj Gupta, president and CEO of telecom and mobile management provider Amtel; Gartner Research; and eWEEK reporting. - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/mobile/slideshows/implementing-a-byod-strategy-10-mistakes-to-avoid/#sthash.FeuFE2lm.dpuf

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