Organizations that choose to support their employees' personal devices within a secure environment will measurably increase their business productivity as well as extend their employees' flexibility. Additionally, the results underline a need for businesses to develop a platform agnostic device strategy that ensures corporate data remains secure.
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- Organizations provide comprehensive support to BYOD: Employees will workaround corporate IT infrastructure in order to be productive and find ways to leverage their personal devices, regardless of if they're supported by the business or not. Supporting as many computing platforms as possible will ensure employees are accessing and sharing business data within a secure environment approved by the organization.
- CIO should focus on data when implementing BYOD: Over three quarters of all CIOs identify their role as a data custodian or someone responsible for locating content and establishing context that is aligned with associated business rules. An organization's mobile strategy therefore needs to not only enable IT professionals to effectively manage the volume of data, but also provide the solutions that allow employees to securely access and leverage data as a business asset.
- BYOD implementation should enable productivity: Identify the business applications employees rely on (such as the organization's email or social collaboration tools) and provide mobile and tablet support for these applications to ensure employees can remain productive.
