"Understanding the business is key to making the right decision when it comes to enterprise mobility," said Nader Henein, regional director of Advanced Security Assurance at BlackBerry.
"If IT or leadership decide in isolation, then you are guaranteed to a deliver a solution with limited ROI that may not address the needs of the business. We see this quite a bit," he continued.
Henein said safety is the biggest driving factor when choosing an enterprise mobility strategy. "At a very high level, BYOD, CYOD and COPE are the most popular approaches, each with its own pros and cons. The main difference is device ownership and choice. Those factors should not affect corporate information security. A common misconception is that if the ownership of the device goes, so do corporate secrets," he noted.
"Another misconception is cost. On the face of it, most believe BYOD is cheaper as it shifts the device cost (one-time cost) to the user without factoring in the cost of the man-hours (on-going cost) to support a wide range of devices," he continued.
According to Henein, the top three things that organisations are not getting right with their EM strategies are:
* No ROI study ahead of deployment and no ROI revision post deployment.
* No application strategy, which means you've made the bulk of the investment, but then you stopped short.
* No forward-looking plans. Most of the time businesses choose solutions to address their current needs but not their needs down the line; this is how you end up stuck in a firefighting loop.
In order for companies to get their enterprise mobility approach right from the start, they need a measurement system. "Metrics, how do you gauge if what you are doing is correct - this is key to constantly quantifying what you are doing and having something to aim for," he pointed out.
BlackBerry is one of the companies listed by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Mobility Management Suites as one of the top end-user computing leaders. It will be taking part in ITWeb's Enterprise Mobility Summit at the end of August. Henein will be doing a presentation on revisiting mobile strategy. He will enlighten delegates on the cost and benefits of mobility (a P&L approach to the strategy); the three key pillars to a successful mobile ecosystem in business and the evolution of the mobile strategy.
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