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Participants should be encouraged to buy their personal devices through normal consumer channels rather than the organisation’s purchasing department. This helps maintain clear lines of ownership as well as ensures that participants have a direct relationship with their hardware vendor. You may want to make employee discounts available to them, if covered under your corporate vendor relationships.
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Get a handle on costs. Contrary to popular perception and in many cases, BYOD may increase an organisation’s costs by requiring the IT team to support a wider range of devices than they would under a corporate devices-only policy. In addition, software licensing costs may increase as more devices are used to access company systems. Try and build cost scenarios based on different combinations of devices and employees.
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BYOD doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing proposition. You should think about the specific services you want to make available on BYO devices based on work groups, user types, device types and network utilised.
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Says Prabhu, “We have not yet done any cost-benefit analysis. Our objective is to manage various mobile devices in the right way rather than accepting risk. Also, we want to extend enterprise applications to the mobile workforce.” In Jakhu’s opinion, if a SaaS solution is adopted for MDM/BYOD, then the costs would be maximum $50 per device per year (inclusive of bells and whistles). “This will overall be less than managing unsecured devices which are using corporate networks with or without IT’s knowledge,” he says. On the productivity front, Jakhu says, “Assuming BYOD is in place, employees greatly benefit from such a solution since they are assured that their personal data isn’t being taken away from them.” Both Essar and BPTP are putting the lessons of their BYOD experiments to work and seem set to become more nimble and employee-friendly organisations. Given the rapid and, apparently, unstoppable march of mobile devices into the enterprise, it is high time other Indian organisations considered BYOD with a methodical, proactive approach rather than deal with it as a reluctant reaction.