A Presentation on ICT for Lawyers

This post is a summary of a presentation I gave to a group of lawyers on ICT fundamentals. It represents my own opinion, and not that of my employers or anyone else! I apologies for it being so wordy – but a lot of material was covered.

My presentation walked through some fundamental concepts in ICT, some major trends that are shaping ICT, and how ICT organisations are evolving. The aim is to give a plain english summary to allow ICT lawyers to have sensible conversations about ICT to support the work that they do with ICT professionals. In my view ICT may be hard to do, but it is not hard to understand. At the end of each topic I will include my own personal view.

What Is BYOD?

Much noise has been made about the consumerisation of IT and its effect on enterprise IT shops. One of the biggest aspects of the consumerisation of IT is the idea of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). As I am heavily involved in a number of significant BYOD initiatives I thought I’d discuss some of the issues it raises, starting with this discussion of what I think BYOD is, and what I think are the different types of BYOD.