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The alternatives

The attraction of BYOD was never ownership. It was not carrying two things, and that can be arranged other ways.

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Buying the Device After All

The arrangement BYOD replaced, reconsidered honestly, because for a substantial share of roles it turns out to be the cheaper one.

Choose Your Own, Company Owned

The arrangement that keeps what employees actually wanted from BYOD and removes most of what makes it difficult.

The Hybrid Nobody Names

Most organisations end up running several arrangements at once. Doing it deliberately works considerably better than arriving at it by exception.

Web Only: the Arrangement That Needs No Device

If nothing is stored locally, most of this collection stops applying. The question is which work can actually be done that way.

Reviewing an Arrangement That Drifted

Most BYOD arrangements are several years past the decision that created them. A day of review finds what has changed and what nobody intended.

Costing the Options Side by Side

Four arrangements, one page, the same categories for each. The exercise takes a day and it settles arguments that otherwise run for years.

Writing the Policy You Should Have Written

Two pages, assembled from everything here, in the order somebody will actually read them.

Whose Device, Whose Data