Discover new strategies and policies IT management is using to embrace the personal mobility wave in their organizations.

It's no longer feasible for an IT department, regardless of company size, to ignore the smartphone push from the majority of the employee population. IT management must attempt to channel the chaos and determine ways to embrace the personal mobility wave while maintaining effective security and management measures, especially in relation to the corporate network.

This new environment calls for innovative mobile strategies, new policies, and a fresh approach to allowing smartphones access to corporate resources. IT management must take a leadership role in setting those strategies and policies. Download this white paper to learn more.

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As more employees desire to use their personal smartphones for work, IT managers must leverage the opportunity, or risk their organizations missing out on an emerging business trend.

Consider this scenario: An employee is at his son’s soccer practice, which is dragging on much longer than he thought it would. If he could access his work email on his new smartphone, he thinks to himself, he could track those projects he’s been working on. So why won’t IT let him have access to the corporate network?

In increasing numbers, employees are clamoring to use personal smartphones for work-related duties. According to IDC, employee-owned smartphones will represent more than half (56%) of the business smartphones shipped in 2013, for a total of 56.7 million devices going into the hands of individual workers in the next three years.

It’s no longer feasible for an IT department, regardless of company size, to ignore the smartphone push from the majority of the employee population. IT management must attempt to channel the chaos and determine ways to embrace the personal mobility wave while maintaining effective security and management measures, especially in relation to the corporate network. ...

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