BYOD is not rocket science–or is it?

January 10, 2015 Off By David
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Grazed from FierceMobileIT.  Author: Fred Donovon.

As more companies grapple with the challenges of allowing employees to bring their own devices to work, they can perhaps gain some insight from a bunch of rocket scientists at NASA.  Surprising as it might sound, the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at NASA has embraced BYOD and implemented some innovative BYOD measures, a report by Lifehacker explains.

Tom Soderstrom, IT chief technology and innovation officer at the lab, says that to keep ahead of IT trends he maps out three-year IT increments and crowdsources innovation during seminars with JPL staff…


Soderstrom has created a "petting zoo"–no, not a zoo of exotic life forms from other planets, but a zoo for trying out consumer tech to improve the JPL staff’s work lives. "We buy more or less one of everything that passes the laugh test and then let people who really could make sense of it use it in their environment. It’s all about the use case. You don’t know the use case until you try it," he tells Lifehacker…

Read more from the source @ http://www.fiercemobileit.com/story/byod-not-rocket-science-or-it/2015-01-09