Many companies know that BYOD is important, but not every nation is adapting this policy equally. A collaborative Dell report on BYOD performance cited by Tom Kaneshige of CIO found a disparity between general attitudes towards personal device use and the ways specific countries have taken to it.
The conditions that affect the BYOD plans of different nations include government regulations and security concerns, the latter of which has affected the normally robust use of BYOD policies in the US. Another, deeper factor is the general national culture surrounding device use in the workplace, which can vary wildly.
An example Kaneshige gives is the Brazilian approach, where every device is handed out by the employer. This is similar to the European view, where, according to the source, many employees just assume that they will have access to mobile devices as part of their job.
Whatever path enterprises take, the devices involved need to be held to an acceptable standard. Art King of SpiderCloud Wireless references this in a recent article for Tech Republic. King, an enterprise services director, said that the burden of successful integration of outside devices has to fall on the IT department.
"In many organizations, procurement has been handed the role of managing mobile, and they are buying devices and SIMs," he said. "You end up with a situation that the management of the finances is not with the same people who have the mobile strategy," he added. He also said that this could lead to poor communication and "causes a big financial leak in the organization."
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