Your Mobile Computing Strategy

Companies realize they need a comprehensive mobile computing strategy — that includes consumer devices — to tap into the full potential of their mobile workers.

In addition to the potential for increased productivity, consumer smartphones and tablets enable employees to stay connected to social networks such as Facebook®, Twitter and other social media outlets, where opinions feed directly into brand equity. Create a strategy that can boost brand equity by including consumer devices in your enterprise IT:

• Fence your intellectual property, not your devices
• Incorporate a core competency around managing consumer devices and participating on social networks
• Keep company and personal data separate
• Share responsibility for carrier and voice-plan management with employees
• Ensure there's an application for that
• Automate large-scale provisioning and maintenance throughout the solution life cycle
• Implement rapid application development
• Allow for custom applications to leave the door wide open to innovation