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Tackle the Technology of Consumerization

It doesn’t have to be the zombie apocalypse!

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Your Challenge

  • Consumer technology is in the enterprise, and here to stay.
  • Some professionals fear the effect that consumerization will have on the manageability of technology in the enterprise.
  • Organizations that do nothing will be stuck in a situation where employees are circumventing IT to use the consumer technology they are accustomed to.

Our Advice

Critical Insight
  • Consumer technology infected executives first, but now the consumerization epidemic has hit nearly every employee.
  • Turn consumerization to your advantage. Tech-savvy consumer employees are not distracted zombies: they can be more productive and satisfied than ever before.
  • Different form factors bring different challenges: understand current and future trends in smartphones, tablets, ultrabooks, and more. Don’t forget the applications on them, and the networks they connect to.
  • Implement management technologies, such as mobile device management (MDM) to simplify the consumerization situation.
Impact and Result
  • With IT staff knowledgeable about the opportunities and risks that consumer technology brings, organizations can go from fearing the consumer hoard to supporting a workforce that is more productive than ever.
  • Know what is coming in the next year to anticipate the rapidly changing landscape of consumer technology.

Get to Action

  1. Understand the technology of consumerization

    Turn consumer technology in the enterprise to your advantage, and avoid the high cost of doing nothing.

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Tags

mobile, mobile device, MDM, consumer devices, iPad, consumer technology, tablets, consumerization of IT, consumerization, consumer products, iPad in the enterprise, ipad2, IOS, Android, smartphones, BYOC, BYOD, Mobile Device Management, ultrabooks, enterprise app stores, singularity, windows 8

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It doesn’t have to be the zombie apocalypse!

Companies Who Helped

  • Amber MacArthur, Television and Podcast Host (Call For Help, The Social Hour), Co-founder MGImedia
  • Patrick Moorhead, Former Corporate VP at AMD, Moor Insights & Strategy
  • Sarah Prevette, Founder of Sprouter, Editor-in-chief at Betakit
  • Robert Scoble, Startup Liason at Rackspace, Author, and Technology Evangelist
  • Seven IT professionals contributed anonymous written quotes
  • 96 Info-Tech clients and social media contacts took part in a survey that contributed to the development of this research.

Solution Road Map

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  1. Prepare For a New World of Workforce Computing
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  2. Exploit Disruptive Technology
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  3. Develop a Mobile Management Strategy
    Small devices can be a big challenge without a strategy to manage them.
  4. Vendor Landscape: Mobile Device Management Suites
    MDM is still a features arms race. Choose the right weapons.
  5. Architect the Mobile Strategy in Two Days
    Mobilize your workforce – not just devices.
  6. Develop & Enforce Policies that Securely Enable a Mobile Workforce
    Prepare your policies for a future when mobile personas are more important than mobile devices.
  7. Understand and Manage Consumerization
    Love it or hate it, just don’t ignore it.
  8. Tackle the Technology of Consumerization
    It doesn’t have to be the zombie apocalypse!
  9. Transition to BYOD and Beyond
    Strategize for BYOD now while preparing for the BYOE future.
  10. Secure the Network in a BYOD World
    Your tolerance for risk will define your strategy.
  11. Incorporate Mobile into the Enterprise Print Strategy
    Mobile printing: When BYOD goes from problem solver to problem.
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