This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. As mobility continues to blur the lines between home and work life, productivity after office hours has become a staple of the modern-day worker. The BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) movement and the integration of personal technology in the workplace enables people to work from anywhere, anytime. …
A CIO’s Guide to Mobility Governance
We live and work in a mobile world, there’s no question about that. As a result, the way we conduct business, is changing. All those devices that form the backbone of enterprise mobility—many of them falling under the potentially treacherous, still slightly “wild wild west’esque” BYOD category—can be great for productivity and employee satisfaction. They can be not so great, …
How Mobile Device Management Is a CIO’s Best Friend
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. In the age of Shadow IT, we don’t know what’s happening on employee devices—whether they’re personally owned or company issued. Are your employees brainstorming via the latest enterprise-approved social collaboration app, or scrolling through Instagram adding photos of internal office spaces (and possibly internal office proprietary documentation)? Is …
How CIOs Become Invaluable In the Age of SaaS
With SaaS picking up speed, you may have heard whispers about the future of the CIO. Will the role remain necessary? Will it still serve a critical function in the running of a business, especially when you factor in the emergence of “Everything” as a Service (XaaS)? The answers are yes, yes, and yes. CIOs are still the glue that …
Dear CIO, Are Employees Entitled to Any Sort of Privacy in the Age of Mobility?
In just the past few years the role of the CIO has changed so much. With technology moving faster than ever before, such rate of change is creating a whole new set of challenges for the head of technology and perhaps nothing has had a bigger impact on CIOs than the growth of mobility; especially the management of these devices …
Should SMEs Be Worried About Mobile Device Management?
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. As the leader of a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), requiring employees to use their own mobile devices makes sense because it cuts costs. However, SMEs should be aware of security risks and put a mobile device management (MDM) solution in place. With half of all employers …
BYOD: Is the Debate Over?
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. For the longest time, we hotly debated whether or not BYOD is good for business. And why not? Few trends in IT have managed to generate as much hype and headache in recent times as BYOD. Over the past few years, the surveys and studies regarding BYOD …
Mobile Video Communication: Enterprise Ready or Consumer Toy?
We are all becoming more familiar with mobile video apps. The availability of Skype and FaceTime allows us to call home or chat face to face with a friend from anywhere. These apps work, they are simple, and they integrate with our mobile lifestyle. These tools have exponentially increased our comfort level with mobile video conferencing. Many of us are …
The Snowball Effect of Implementing “Cheap IT”
I’ll be honest. I don’t like the ring of it when people utter the words “cheap” and “IT” in the same breath. But wait, this post isn’t about my personal preferences, right? Actually, it is! I’m going to talk about why “cheap” and “IT” are not best buddies from a business standpoint, and why it is dangerous for any company …
IT Pros and Working Toward The Frictionless Enterprise
In an era of increasing reliance on technology in business, the traditional in-house IT model for enterprise companies is coming under pressure as other aspects of the organization look for a more nimble approach. In many instances, it’s not unusual for the IT function to be viewed as something of an obstruction to be worked around rather than an asset …