Auch für Banken und Sparkassen ist die Nutzung privater IT und vor allem mobiler Endgeräte durch Mitarbeiter am Arbeitsplatz ein spannendes aktuelles Thema.
Hintergrund
Viele Banken verbieten ihren Mitarbeitern immer noch die Nutzung sozialer Netzwerke am Arbeitsplatz in der Hoffnung, damit tatsächlich Facebook, Twitter und Co zu verbannen. Tatsächlich nutzen die Mitarbeiter dann jedoch ihre eigenen mobilen Endgeräte, was das Verbot ad absurdum führt.
Der Studie zufolge verrichten 67 Prozent der befragten Angestellten in Deutschland berufliche Aufgaben mindestens gelegentlich mit eigenen Handys und Computern. Sie sitzen dabei vor allem an eigenen PCs (56 Prozent), Laptops (53 Prozent) und Smartphones (36 Prozent). Damit hinkt Deutschland sogar noch international hinterher…
Overview
The study was aimed at understanding the breadth and depth of this phenomenon; its drivers, benefits and drawbacks; and the strategies companies are using to manage it.
The Accenture Institute for High Performance creates strategic insights into key management issues through original research and analysis. Its management researchers combine world-class reputations with Accenture’s extensive consulting, technology and outsourcing experience to conduct innovative research and analysis into how organizations become and remain high-performance businesses.
Background
Androids, iPads, Google Docs, Dropbox – these and other technologies are everywhere in enterprises today. Often, they enter the workplace with employees, not under the company’s auspices.
They may raise alarms, but they also present valuable opportunities to those who successfully harness them. Few companies have effectively tackled the implications of IT consumerization.
Our study shows that consumerization of IT in the workplace follows a certain pathway. By understanding the four steps that make up this pathway, executives can evaluate where they stand on the road of IT consumerization.
Key Findings
IT consumerization management strategies include the extremes of anarchy and authority. Adoption, the middle-ground strategy, comprises tactics that companies can use to exploit the benefits of anarchy and authority and to manage the two strategies’ drawbacks. While we found three strategies and four adoption tactics in our study, companies may be using additional approaches beyond those we’ve identified.
Anarchy
Management allows external devices and applications to enter the enterprise without restrictions.
Authority
Management exercises tight control and restrict the number of devices and applications entering the enterprise.
Adoption
Management works with end users to maximize the benefits and minimize the risks.
Broadening the scope
Management gradually opens up the list of allowable consumer devices and applications.
Enticing choice
Management provides employees with IT allowances as a job benefit.
Segmenting by role
Management develops a consumerization profile for each role within the company.
Advocating uptake
Management is proactively pushing cutting edge consumer technologies into the organization.
Analysis
Many professionals replace their cell phones every two years-or even sooner. Only 18 months ago, there was no iPad, and early tablets found limited traction. Today, the iPad is everywhere. The tens of millions of these devices that have been sold pose a real threat to the PC marketplace and raise serious questions about enterprise IT.
Most executives acknowledge the growing use of smart phones and iPads at work. They’ve also noticed that employees are using social media to achieve business objectives. And they know that the use of shared spaces outside the corporate firewall (for example, through Google Docs, YouTube or Dropbox) is increasing. But many executives view these as insular occurrences that are not related to one another. Consequently, only few organizations have created a cohesive strategy for treating IT consumerization.
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