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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.

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