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Summary: Should IT departments attempt to inject themselves into the do-it-yourself app phenomenon? Dave Blazek takes a humorous perspective on this question.

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Should IT departments attempt to inject themselves into the do-it-yourself app phenomenon? Dave Blazek takes a humorous perspective on this question.

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  • Wheel Refurbishment

    Which type of industries it is?
    wheelrefurbishment
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  • So tell me again . . .

    So tell me again . . . what is the supposed benefit of BYOD?

    Frankly, there's too many conflicts between personal and business needs.

    If you need "only authorized apps" installed, then you probably shouldn't have a BYOD policy - because if somebody's using the device for personal use, then frankly they expect to be able to install any app they want.

    I have games on my device. They're not "authorized apps" - but they're good apps to use on my own personal time for my own personal enjoyment. So my personal life would interfere with business policy if a business using BYOD were to adopt an "authorized apps only" policy.

    Frankly, I see BYOD as a "me too" policy and not a "we're using this policy because there are clear benefits." I still don't see the clear benefits of this much-touted BYOD policy.
    CobraA1
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    • The biggest problem: LIABILITY

      It will only take one irresponsible employee to cause a huge liability problem.

      And the liability problem is not only one way .... the employee may become involved in an investigation even if he had no clue of what happened.
      wackoae
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      • And that's why . . .

        And that's one reason why I like to keep my private and business devices separate. Much less likely to become a liability.
        CobraA1
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  • This is how ...

    Microsoft became dominant. People kept buying these pesky things called PCs because the IT department's options for word processing and spread sheets and dozens of other things, well, sucked.

    And getting a printer at or near your desk that printed on something other than 11x14 green striped paper, well, heavens, what would become of the world.
    raleighthings
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    • What a BS post

      #1- People did not buy PCs because of spreadsheets. Only a completely clueless person would claim that ..... not knowing that Excel was a MAC application until MS purchase it.
      #2- Departments not people made purchases according to their needs. Do you really think that people would spend $2K-$4K (the cost of PCs up to the mid-90's) out of their money for the benefit of the company?
      wackoae
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      • Re: What a BS Post

        People very definitely did buy PCs because of spreadsheets. Only a completely clueless person would not know that the relevant spreadsheet was the original one - VisiCalc - and that it existed, and was phenomenally popular, years before the MAC or Excel came on the scene.

        People spent $1500 or so out of their own pockets to benefit _themselves_ - in their work for the company. Some companies tried to keep the employee-owned PCs and early laptops out of the office, and failed - they finally admitted they were beneficial to the company, and started buying them for the employees.

        We're talking back in the 1970's and 1980's here - were you even born yet?
        zellich
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      • Please, look in the mirror

        And repeat your post subject and aim it sincerely at yourself.

        Your post was completely full of "it" and in case you get tempted to burrow deeper into "it" please don't.
        ego.sum.stig
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      • Re: What a ....

        To clarify. Spreadsheets were likely THE #1 reason people used a PC at work for the first year or few after Lotus 123 came out. Which was years become Excel showed up on Windows. 123 also predated windows. And yes I know that Excel existed first on Macs. I might still have the v1 diskettes around here somewhere.

        As to people spending their own personal money. No, mostly not. But what they were spending were non IT dollars as the IT departments in the early 80s mostly refused to have anything to do with PCs. Many departments were shuffling money around that was targeted for other things. Wang WP money. Supplies money. Let's not replace that person who left and put the money into PCs. Etc... BYOD was a really big deal back then. Just in a different form than today. Back them the YOUR in BYOD meant not from IT.

        Read some history before you start yelling next time. And if you don't know about Wang Word Processing system, well they were one reason everyone knew how to move money around. Corporate policy tended to direct you to a typing pool for most documents. Wang WP systems obliterated most typing pools. But not without some big fights.
        raleighthings
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