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Planning for the future of mobility: A BYOD guide for enterprise CIOs
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Editor's note
Is your company planning for the future of mobility? If not, you're at serious risk of being left behind. The heavy integration of mobile technologies in both the personal and business spheres is driving IT departments to think differently when it comes to developing technology roadmaps.
One major concern: BYOD. Bring your own device goes beyond employees toting their personal smartphones to work or accessing business email from home on their tablet PC. BYOD is spilling into other areas of the enterprise, such as bring your own apps (BYOA), bring your own cloud (BYOC) and bring your own network (BYON) -- all of which are changing the mobile landscape and complicating enterprise mobile device policies. Here, we examine next-generation mobile strategies and how emerging BYOD trends are forcing IT leaders to rethink long-held beliefs about where, and how, work gets done.
This CIO Essential Guide on planning for the future of mobility is part of the CIO Briefings series, which is designed to give IT leaders strategic management and decision-making advice on timely topics.
1The future of BYOD: Top threats
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice BYOD. Sure, mobility's future is bright, but there are many risk management snags to sort out. The videos in this section examine the compliance and security threats you may incur as part of an enterprise mobility program, as well as strategies for surmounting them. The final video looks toward the future of mobility and business intelligence, so you can prepare for problems on the horizon.
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Cyberthreats and mobility: The risk management fallout
In this webcast, a number of experts weigh in on how new technologies -- mobility, cloud computing, social media -- pose a threat to enterprise security. Learn how to protect your sensitive corporate data. Watch Now
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Sheer number of mobile choices complicates strategy
The move toward consumerization is forcing organizations to rethink how they confront data security and governance. In this webcast, we examine why it's difficult to pin down a one-size-fits-all approach to data protection. Watch Now
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What's coming next for mobile and BI?
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2Bring one, bring all: BYOA, BYOC and BYON
In simpler mobility times, employees were merely asking to access work emails and contact lists on the same mobile device they used to tweet and call Mom. Now BYOA, BYOC and BYON are driving IT departments to evaluate how lenient they're willing to be when confidential data is at stake.
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Making mobile apps enterprise-ready as BYOA emerge
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3Bring your own what? BYO terms to know
Before implementing bring-your-own programs at your organization, make sure you understand exactly what to expect from employees, clients and customers.
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Definition
BYOA (bring your own apps)
Bring your own apps (BYOA) is the trend toward employee use of third-party applications and cloud services in the workplace. BYOA, like the BYOD trend towards user-owned devices in the workplace, is an example of the increasing consumerization of IT. Read Now
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BYOT (bring your own technology)
Bring your own technology (BYOT) is a policy that allows employees or students to use their own personal electronic devices at work or scho Read Now
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BYON (bring your own network)
When a network administrator talks about BYON, he is describing the ability that employees have to create a wireless hot spot at work. Vendors are using the term to describe a service that allows remote employees to bring their own Internet access with them by subscribing to a global Wi-Fi network. Read Now
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BYOD (bring your own device)
BYOD (bring your own device) is the increasing trend toward employee-owned devices within a business. Smartphones are the most common example but employees also take their own tablets, laptops and USB drives into the workplace. Read Now
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BYOD policy
A BYOD policy, or bring-your-own-device policy, is a set of rules governing a corporate IT department’s level of support for employee-owned PCs, smartphones and tablets. Read Now
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mobile application management (MAM)
Mobile application management (MAM) is software that secures and enables IT control over enterprise applications on end users' corporate and personal smartphones and tablets. Read Now
4BYOD studies in success
As CIOs tackle new bring-your-own trends and technologies, success stories are emerging. In this section, learn how BYOD fits into the future of mobility and read how IT leaders across industries are leveraging new device policies to prepare their clients, customers and employees for mobile triumphs.
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Podcast
BYOD in education focuses on productivity
SearchCIO's IT Leader of the Year, Utah State University CIO Eric Hawley, approaches BYOD in education by turning mobile devices into productivity tools. Listen to the podcast to learn how mobile technologies are changing the way Hawley does business. Listen Now
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Dell IT becomes a partner to employees with BYOD program
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Confront trouble and build the business with BYOD adoption
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Where does BYOT fit into the future?
For this CIO Chatter, SearchCIO polled readers on whether BYOD is a passing trend or the future of IT. It turns out that BYOT management remains a high priority for IT departments -- but for how long? Read Now
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Could consumer-targeted mobile tools be the future of BYOD?
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5BYOD trends: Test your knowledge of mobile policy and procedure
It's likely your organization has already adopted a BYOD policy, or has one in the works. In recent years, BYOD has sprung up in the workplace as CIOs consider how they can improve accessibility and convenience for their employees. Along the way, CIOs have been bombarded by news, expert advice and how-to demonstrations on BYOD trends, practices and problems -- and we want to see you put that knowledge to the test. Review some of our recent CIO coverage and take our BYOD trend quiz to see whether you have the strategic, security and budgetary knowledge to revolutionize the way in which your organization and employees proceed in what's fast becoming a mobile-first environment.