Mobility governance is a mess

Mobility has far reaching affects on the enterprise in areas such as security risk, use policies, manageability, and governance. Mobility governance refers to the people, processes, and policies associated with mobility deployment within the enterprise. With few exceptions, enterprise mobility deployment is often reactive and tactical. The lack of a corporate mobility strategy results in the deployment of incompatible point solutions, coordination issues, and inconsistent policies.time_graphic

In addition, most enterprises have no coordinated approach to mobility funding. This includes decisions to deploy a wireless LAN, purchase mobile devices, and select mobile cellular service plans. Some managers demand that business case analysis be applied to the decision-making process for such things as wireless deployment, and social networking implementation. IT managers often express frustration with how difficult it is to develop a business case for mobility products and services. Other managers go to the other extreme and simply mandate mobility technology deployment without any upfront analysis. Continue reading Mobility governance is a mess

New year resolution: Improve mobile security

There were approximately 40 million smart phones shipped in the third quarter of 2008. Most of these phones were purchased for personal use. However a growing number of employees expect to connect their personal device to enterprise networks in order to retrieve e-mail, synchronize calendars, and download files. Although the enterprise may not own the device, they do own the information assets stored on the device. Therefore, enterprises must evaluate mobile device threats and implement mitigation techniques. [...]

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Welcome to MobileParadigm.com.  This blog provides thoughtful analysis of enterprise mobility. The topics will include wireless technology, security, mobile messaging, practices/policies for sound mobile governance, cost reduction strategies, mobile collaboration, and mobile strategies. This will likely evolve as my interests, the industry, and technology evolves.  

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