If you were feeling pretty good about BYOD, not everyone necessarily agrees with you. At the Gartner® Symposium/ITxpo®, Gartner listed BYOD as one of the top 10 strategic technology trends for 2014, and estimated that BYOD will double or even triple the size of the mobile workforce - and place a huge strain on IT and finance organizations.

Gartner describes BYOD as "a disruptive phenomenon where employees bring non-company IT into the organization and demand to be connected to everything - without proper accountability or oversight." Gartner goes on to warn about BYOD causing violations of all kinds of enterprise rules and regulations, and leading to detrimental impacts on network availability and loss of data. However, with the
 proper governance policies in place, this type of evolution can be handled gracefully. The transformation is inevitable (it's already well underway), so managing this process is not as dire as the analysts predict. Going mobile with BYOD is not difficult, it's just complicated, and we do complicated things all day, every day.