Consumerization
Consumerization or consumerization (English from consumer , dt. Consumer and ization , English as a word ending for the substantiation of a process; literally becoming more consumer , analogously about approaching consumers ) describes the process or the appearance that electronic devices such as Smartphones , tablet PCs , can also be used by employees for their gainful employment.
advantages
- Certain work can be decentralized and organized and carried out more flexibly
- More sovereignty for workers over their time and labor relationships
Problems
- The dissolving boundary between professional and private life calls for a determination of the position and the definition of availability limits and areas
- fewer control options for companies
- Companies can access privately used devices via the network connections
- External access via private end devices harbors considerable additional potential for electronic threats to company networks ( hacking ) and data content ( industrial espionage , data protection)
- (Business) economical applications may run considerably more slowly on the smaller private devices and are more laborious and time-consuming to use
- For security, harmonization and buffering, another working level is required between private and company software , a so-called ( middleware )
See also
source
- "The IT departments need to recognize this paradigm shift" - "Consumerization" of the workplace makes IT managers sweat in: dradio.de, Deutschlandfunk, Computer und Kommunikation, October 29, 2011 (October 31, 2011)
Web links
- Trends and insights into the consumerization of mobile devices. Survey of IT managers and CEOs. (PDF; 133 kB) Final report. Trend Micro Germany, August 31, 2012, accessed December 29, 2012 .
- An Overview of Consumerization: Embracing the Inevitable. Intel, accessed May 20, 2013 .