Author:
Ivan Ivanov
Affiliation:
SUNY Empire State College, United States
Keyword(s):
Bring Your Own Device – BYOD, Consumerization of IT, Company-Owned, Personally-Enabled – COPE, Mobile Device Management – MDM, Mobile Application Management – MAM, Mobile Content Management – MCM, BYOD Framework.
Abstract:
In the last few years, new technologies emerge first in the consumer market and then, after mass acceptance, are employed largely by business organizations. Companies across the globe are going through the most disruptive new technology development: Consumerization. Consumerization of IT, along with workforce mobility, and flexible, reliable, accessible and affordable remote computing, are forcefully changing the corporate IT lanscape, affecting the relationship between enterprise IT, knowledge workers, corporate users, and consumers. This phenomenon advances with every arrival of new devices, applications, or strategic trends such as Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD). BYOD is currently a growing trend in the private and public sector that allows employees the convenience of logging into the corporate network with their personal mobile devices. This paper explores the impact of this trend on the enterprise IT landscape and provides a decision framework for BYOD adoption.