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According to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, 38% of companies expect to stop providing devices to workers by 2016. Does this augur good for the new generation workforce as they can bring their own devices to work or is this going to be another headache for IT admins? Because, BYOD strategy may not include a subsidy so employees would need to bear all expenses of owning a device while on the other side, employers would need to deploy a framework to manage all those devices.
While the concept of BYOD has been largely consumer-driven, consumers have not been quite concerned about the security issues. An increasing number of people are using mobile devices for personal as well as office purposes.
All said and done, the biggest advantage of this trend is that BYOD as it picks up would enable CIOs to help enhance the productivity of employees by rolling out applications throughout the workforce which can lead to new opportunities beyond traditional mobile email communications.
Before we go further, let's do a reality check on the readiness of indian enterprises to embrace this trend. "Nearly half of the companies in India have security policies that prohibit BYOD", says ISACA 2012 IT Risk/Reward Barometer. This...