When you start to looking into the best way to enable enterprise mobility, the first thing you will learn is there are a lot of acronyms that allude to a company’s policy such as:
BYOD: Bring Your Own Device
CYOD: Choose Your Own Device
COPE: Company Owned / Personally Enabled
COBO: Company Owned / Business Only
While the acronyms seem to be pretty straight forward, often, in this sea of acronyms, the water is fairly choppy. For brevity, you can pick an acronym to summarize your approach to enabling mobility for your business. In doing so, it is really important that you make it clear what it means to your organization, to IT and to your end-users.
When you are defining the mobile program, make sure you are able to articulate the following:
1. When it comes to the devices that your users are going to use: what are the device options; who decides / picks the device; who pays for the physical device and who pays for the plan (voice / data / text, etc.)? Are you just talking about laptops, mobile phones and tablets? Does it extend to wearables?
There are many questions and even more answers when you start counting all of the combinations. However, it is important that IT, Management and end-users are all on the same page. We created an infographic you can check out here, that helps illustrate the different points of view between IT and the end-user on enterprise mobility and how it can create internal tensions. If end-users can better understand the goals of IT (and vice versa) it can help everyone get what they need.
If you need help defining these policies for your business or would like to understand how technology can improve security, simplify management and improve the end-user experience, give us a call.