By Jesse Scardina – Between Windows and iOS, iPhones and Androids, tablets and Chromebooks, and a future that includes more IoT devices, a BYOD strategy can be challenging to implement.

With employee experience becoming increasingly important for organizations, IT has little choice but to provide the option of using the laptops, smartphones and operating systems employees choose.

That’s why enterprises are leaning away from allowing employees to bring their own devices and toward a choose your own device (CYOD) strategy, according to Steve Brasen, research director at Enterprise Management Associates Inc.(EMA), a Boulder, Colo.-based enterprise research firm.

“It’s been 11 years since the iPhone came out, and that kicked off this digital revolution,” Brasen said, adding that mobile innovation in the last decade has caused a shift for IT admins, who used to worry about managing a PC or desktop. Read more: