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Have your employees demanded a BYOD (bring your own device) policy yet? If not, the writing is on the wall \u2013 or on the tablet. Any day now, they\u2019ll be bringing their iPhones and iPads to work. Is this trend a threat or an opportunity for you? Consultant Steven Romero sees the latter, advising companies to \u201cleverage the consumerization of IT to advance enterprise mobility.\u201d Forrester\u2019s George Lawrie agrees. \u201c74% of the information workers in our survey used two or more devices for work\u2014and 52% used three or more...they\u2019ll be increasingly interested in work systems and personal cloud services that enable easy multi-device access.\u201d SAP\u2019s Oliver Bussmann warns BYOD laggards, \u201cTo be a business \u2018front runner\u2019, it's unacceptable to be a year or even six months behind consumer trends.\u201d His approach: \u201cIf you can't beat them, lead them.\u201d Join us for State of the Device: Consumerization of IT 2012. p.s. Thursdays 1 PM Pacific on The Business Channel, tune in for In the Cloud with Game-Changers.