The first wave of consumerisation five or six years ago led many businesses to seek novel ways of dealing with increased demands for mobility from a tech-literate workforce.

Employees were buying their own high-powered smartphones and tablets, and wanted to hook these devices into enterprise networks and applications. Under the weight of worker expectations, bring your own device (BYOD) emerged as a coping strategy for the business, allowing workers to use a single, personally-owned device for work and non-work purposes.

Now, in 2015, BYOD seems to be yesterday's trend. Other related movements have emerged, such as choose your own device (CYOD), where workers select from a pre-approved list of devices and COPE (corporate-owned, personally-enabled), where devices are provided by the business but available for non-work activities.