CASE STUDY : The pleasure and Pitfalls of BYOD

1.What are the advantages and disadvantages of allowing employees to use their personal smartphones for work?

The advantage of allowing employees to use their personal smartphone for work allows  for employers to spend less money on equipment. The disadvantages of allowing  employees to their personal smart phone for work are there are many mobile platforms  available, a significantly large amount of IT resources would have to be dedicated to  managing and maintaining a large number of devices in an organization, and the absence  of an effective way to keep track of all the devices employees are using.

2. What management, organization, and technology factors should be addressed  when deciding whether to allow employees to use their personal smartphones for  work?

Factors that should be addressed include how the devices will be used to perform  operational duties. Time management and productivity has to be addressed. The  organization has to decide if the use of the employee’s personal device would be  beneficial to the company in regards to productivity and overhead cost. From a technical  standpoint, a sound IT system has to be created in order to maintain as well as provide  support to the employees for their specific mobile device.

3.Compare the BYOD experiences of IBM and Intel. Why did BYOD at Intel work so well?


BYOD experiences of IBM
BYOD experiences of Intel
There is only creating new challenges for the IT department and didn’t save any money for IBM because employees’ devices are full with the software.
Intel approached BYOD in a positive manner, trying to find ways to make it work rather than to defeat it.
IBM equips the mobile devices of the latter category of employees with additional software such as programmes that encrypt information as it travels to and from corporate networks.
Intel hammered out a BYOD strategy and created an end-user service-level agreement that clarified that end users were voluntarily using BYOD rather than being mandated by Intel.
BYOD improve employees’ job satisfaction and productivity but cause some problems if managed improperly.
Intel program offers 40 proprietary applications, including travel tools to help schedule a flight and conference room finders.

4.Allowing employees use their own smartphones for work will save the company money. Do you agree? Why or why not?

Allowing employees to use their own smartphones for work will save money with  upfront cost but over the course of time, it may cost more to maintain a sound system  with the many platforms that are currently available. The creation of applications that  work on multiple mobile platforms may be beneficial but only if the system is  restructured.

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