Should BYOD have limits?

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policies in today’s corporate IT environments offer unheard of freedom of choice for enterprise users. However, just as it does in society, freedom in the workplace comes with certain responsibilities.  Getting users to understand and fulfill those responsibilities can be a challenge, and addressing that challenge is exactly what we’ll be discussing during our Twitter Tuesday #MobileBizChat  session this week.

Here are the questions we’ll be asking you in our Oct. 23 Twitter Chat session:

1. 1.      What BYO devices are the hardest to secure & manage today?
2. 2.      Should a company allow any BYO device in the door, or are their limits?
3. 3.      How do you manage wireless bandwidth usage at work? What policies and filters should be enforced on content/usage?
4. 4.      What's the relationship between restrictive/permissive BYOD policies and competitiveness/productivity?

If you’re looking for some guidelines and ideas, you may want to take a look at my video interview series with enterprise mobility thought leaders, such as Viacom CIO David Kline and Integris Health’s Jorge Rodriguez:

• See what Viacom CIO Kline had to say about throttling back on mobile video in the workplace—a notorious bandwidth hog: Watch Video at Work? Absolutely, Says Viacom's CIO.
• See what Integris’ mobile application czar Rodriguez  says about heavy-handed BYOD policies that are too cavalier with users’ personal data: BYOD Gone Bad: Managing the User's Experience.

Then join us at 2pm ET/11am PT on www.twitter.com – search for hashtag #MobileBizChat – to register your thoughts and opinions on the issue.

We can’t wait to hear from you during this week’s Enterprise Mobile Hub Twitter Tuesday #MobileBizChat  session – but if you can’t wait until then to vent on this issue, feel free to post a comment below.