BYOD (Bring your Own Device), coupled with cloud based services, can turn out to be a killer combination. Just make sure neither you nor your enterprise get killed in the process! BYOD will almost definitely succeed as any other initiatives, if it delivers on the goals of business value creation. 

BYOT has happened not by choice but by default. There are lessons to be learnt here. The more one resists embracing new technology that is personal, easy to use and available with no/low entry barrier of learning; the more it proliferates as a challenge to enterprise governance and control structures. 

The need is to have a group of people within an enterprise who should be able to lead their lives as social network inhabitants do. This group should feel and think like them to successfully emote and transact with them; A group that does not necessarily operate under the shadow of people-process-system umbrella. 

In a corporate house, while there is a debate around ideas, once a decision is made, the enterprise collectively approaches to meet the goals even if a few individuals were initially against it. On the social network, no such rule is binding on participants of the social groups. People will walk away from a movement as quickly they walked in with support. All of this could happen in a flash and without a warning. 

Teams that take away operational issues effectively, enable the CIOs to focus on strategies that generate more exciting work for Team CIO. CIO, as a business leader, talks of technology disruptions needed to take the enterprise to the next level. What kind of people should ideally make up a team?