IT Consultants of Boston are you listening? It was less than a week ago when we posted information about the “take your own device” to work trend starting to take flight.
According to an article in GigaOm, it seems 2011 is the year Mobile IT was born.
“2011 was the year Mobile IT was born,” said Bob Tinker, CEO of MobileIron. “It was the year the IT industry figured out mobile, and it’s the year that mobile figured out IT … Every small, medium and large enterprise around the world is going to be deploying smartphones and tablets at scale over the next 12 to 18 months.”
The thing that IT departments are having to learn now, however, is that they can’t treat iPhones or iPads or Android phones the way they would have treated BlackBerrys. That’s because employees know what these devices are supposed to look and feel like. As John Herrema of Good Technology pointed out, if the CEO of a company asks for an iPad at work, and the IT guys shut off the App Store and “lock it down and make it look like a BlackBerry circa 2003,” they should “bring [their] resume and a hard hat,” he said. Because it’s the experience that CEO was looking for when it comes to a mobile device.
Could you have imagined your employees not asking for a “company phone” anymore? They’re willing to use their own devices as long as they can access their company network with it. This should be music to your Comptrollers ears. The Mr. No’s are becoming Yes man as far as IT goes and probably getting quite a bargain in the deal.
It’s the wave of the future, are you on board yet? Let us know what’s happening in your business. We’d like to hear from you.
You can read the full GigaOm article by just clicking here.
