Consumerization

Consumerization consumerization or ( engl. from consumer, German consumers and ization, English as a word ending for the nominalization of a process; . Literally consume -driven wider, mutatis mutandis, about reaching out to consumers) is the process or phenomenon that electronic devices such as Smartphone, tablet PCs, will be used by employees for their employment.

Benefits

• Certain works can decentralize and organize flexible and perform
• More sovereignty of the employees of their time and labor relations

Problems

• The dissolving boundary between work and private life calls for a location determination and the definition of spending limits and ranges
• Lower controls of companies
• Companies can access the network connections on the privately used equipment
• Access from outside via private terminals has considerable additional potential of electronic threats to corporate networks (hacking ) and the data content ( industrial espionage, data protection)
• (Operational ) management applications running on the smaller private devices may decrease considerably slower and are more cumbersome and time-consuming to use
• For safety, harmonization and buffering it needs a more working level between private and business software, called a (middleware)