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Essar Group fights three BYOD devils
Essar Group fights three BYOD devils
By Debarati Roy, CIO | Feb 22, 2012
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PrintSay BYOD, and CIOs cringe. They complain of security, supporting a flood of devices and losing control. But the CIO of Essar Group just proved his peers wrong. Here’s how.
If there’s anything that’s defined our political and corporate lives in recent times, it’s people power. So much so that it’s beginning to influence how countries are run and how business is done.
Ask IT leaders of corporate India, who are in the midst of a consumer-powered IT revolution, under the less sexy title, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).
According to a 2010 IDC-Unisys report, consumer-powered IT is being touted as the principal driver behind the fourth wave of corporate productivity. The first wave was inspired by Henry Ford's invention of the assembly line (between 1908 and 1915). The Japanese collaborative model, Kaizen, was the second wave. The third was driven by the Chinese model of mass production, low prices and global domination.
Today, the fourth wave is driven by a network of constantly connected workers. A network connected by mobiles, laptops, smartphones and the like.
It’s a market that’s exploding. IDC predicts that the smartphone market will grow by nearly 50 percent in 2011, taking the number of smartphone users to over 450 million. It's only a matter of time, say experts, before a large number of these consumer devices find their way into enterprises.
But that’s a problem. While employees are enthused at the prospect of bringing their preferred device to work, CIOs aren’t too excited about losing control. An IDC report points out that 95 percent of employees use self-purchased technologies for work,but a majority (70 percent) of CIOs still want to buy standardized technologies for their employees.
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