"the majority of IT decision makers (62 percent) and C-level executives (84 percent) say it is a relatively simple matter to integrate the employee-owned devices, applications and online services into the enterprise IT system.???
This statement suggests to me that either many executives are sitting in their ivory towers and out of touch with what is really happening in their own organizations or there is some sort of flaw in Avanade's survey.
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Don, you are 100% correct that the executives are out of touch.
In a recent twist of this ???simple matter to integrate??? thought in action, one decision maker announced to staff members that IT will handle questions regarding their consumer devices without defining a policy. The result was IT group getting buried by user requests related to non-standard products from tablets to low-end wireless routers.
This left IT to create a defacto policy of only looking at devices used for work, at work. Even in those cases, work was only done to integrate the device with the work environment. The user is responsible for the maintenance and troubleshooting if there is an actual issue with the device outside of the work necessary elements.
As Don indicated, the ivory tower decision maker failed to examine the organization and staff before making this decision. Rather than making a blanket announcement, specifics should have been given. But in a way, the decision had political merit in that it made IT the bad guy and the decision maker look like a forward thinking manager.
This left IT to create a defacto policy of only looking at devices used for work, at work. Even in those cases, work was only done to integrate the device with the work environment. The user is responsible for the maintenance and troubleshooting if there is an actual issue with the device outside of the work necessary elements.
As Don indicated, the ivory tower decision maker failed to examine the organization and staff before making this decision. Rather than making a blanket announcement, specifics should have been given. But in a way, the decision had political merit in that it made IT the bad guy and the decision maker look like a forward thinking manager.
Next they will report that any chance of COIT being a security issue has been fixed by outsourcing all security management to a middle eastern company who underbid the expert firm they were using from China.
Yes, Mossad has decided to branch out, now that the US interventions have made the middle east safe and stable 
... groups like Gartner and the one cited here are so universally mocked by anyone who does "actual work", they survey so-called "leadership" people about what they *plan* to do in the near future, and conveniently ignore what real workers are *actually doing* or have *actually done*.
Seeing as the generally acknowledged rate for IT project failure is around 70%, asking people "what do you plan to do in the next 12 months?" and then making IT decisions based on it is about as meaningful, accurate, and useful as looking in the farmer's almanac to determine what the weather will be 365 days from now and planning an outdoor event around it.
J.Ja
Seeing as the generally acknowledged rate for IT project failure is around 70%, asking people "what do you plan to do in the next 12 months?" and then making IT decisions based on it is about as meaningful, accurate, and useful as looking in the farmer's almanac to determine what the weather will be 365 days from now and planning an outdoor event around it.
J.Ja
My company belongs to an italian international group, and our IT department has not the technical (in primis...bandwidth, then also ip address free space accross LAN) resources to integrate employees owned devices, nor we have the human resources to manage all the additional security risks...Employees want to make private phone calls by voip using LAN ISP and many more unuseful thing for the company...and call the IT helpdesk also for these reasons...I absolutely disagree with the result of this research or survey, but I'm sure in other situations or environment things may be different.
After reading so many of Galen Gruman (http://www.cio.com/author/41292/Galen+Gruman) articles that claim IT is antiquated and a big roadblock to the adoption of consumerization of IT initiatives, it is refreshing to see a report that reflects the reality I see both in my organization and in others I associate with. My organization has embraced COIT in a measured context - where it adds business value, BYOD limited to system on a chip devices, IT evaluation of apps and cloud offerings, etc - and my team has lead the software/OS side of the equation. IT gets it, supports it and enables it - and this study reflects that state. Nice to see.
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