Monthly Archives: November 2012
Retail Support For BYOD Impacting Enterprise Technology Adoption
BYOD has raised the question in corporate IT “How Do I Support This?!” End users are doing this themselves. In the article in Computer Weekly: Gartner BYOD will encourage self support and this is already happening. Users are educating IT because … Continue reading
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Tagged apple, apple store, building brand loyalty, byod, CIO, cloud, technology
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Some Of The Reason For BYOD
Sometimes you have to look back to look forward. This presentation by Steve Jobs is insightful especially in light of the computer being a tool to productivity.
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BYOD’ers: IT Rogues Challenging The Status Quo To Compete!
With BYOD’ers, the reality that goes unnoticed is these rogues are investing in the companies ability to remain competitive! People are looking at alternatives to the way they work and the tools they use daily. In the early years of … Continue reading
Compromising Positions: End User Privacy In The Workplace
Protecting corporate assets but also an individuals privacy when using BYOD devices has become a criteria for evaluating end user management tools in the enterprise. Privacy is something that end users are becoming more conscience of in their working lives. … Continue reading
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Secure And Manage The User Not The Device At The Endpoint.
The most pressing challenge in the enterprise is the securing of endpoints within the enterprise. The user and the device have been treated as the same entity which is the reason most IT strategies fail especially with BYOD! As discussed … Continue reading
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Application Importance
Continuing the ideas in my posting Apps + BYOD = Productivity not the OS the news of the changes at Microsoft this week are interesting. Lack of Windows 8 apps may have helped cause Steven Sinofsky’s downfall by Preston Gralla … Continue reading
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The Enterprise Supply Chain and Disaster Recovery
Great article in the Economist on Hurricane Sandy’s effect on the enterprise supply chain. Making It Through The Storm.
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BYOD: The House IT Didn’t Build
In the world of End User Computing (EUC) it is the exceptions not the norms that cause the most disruption in the enterprise. The tools in the enterprise are predicated on the fact that by managing the device you manage … Continue reading
Apps + BYOD = Productivity not the OS
Applications make users productive not Operating Systems or Hardware. The elephant in the room is “What is your application road map for the enterprise?” The confusion in the B.Y.O.D market is not that people are bringing in new devices but … Continue reading
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BYOD or COPE: Extending DR To The Desktop
Over the last week, Hurricane Sandy has influenced business operations across eastern North America and indirectly around the world. This weekend a colleague suggested I read the following white paper from HP/Score: Impact on US Small Business of Natural & … Continue reading
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Enterprise Computing Speedbumps 