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Planning a BYOD strategy on the move

• by Cormac Foster
• on Feb 27, 2013

Two weeks ago I blogged about mobile-development paralysis. A former client had a casual bring-your-own-device (BYOD) program where employees were allowed to do whatever they wanted. By the time management realized a formal BYOD program was needed, it was too late and the company slide into dangerous, unproductive territory. Everyone involved knew it was a bad idea, but building a new system while managing the current mess seemed like too much to handle.

So how does a business go about implementing a new BYOD strategy when a free-for-all version of one is already in place? To be sure, it’s more difficult than building a properly regulated program from scratch, but three key steps will help:

1. Get buy in and advice from the proper team.
2. Build a detailed inventory, specification, and set of success metrics.
3. Create a phase-based implementation strategy that puts people and process before software and hardware.