Mobile device management, or MDM, has certainly become a contradiction in terms. One of the major benefits of the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) concept is increased employee productivity, yet MDM often inhibits work output to such a degree, it renders this, and other advantages, largely irrelevant.

Research firm Gartner believes as many as 20% of BYOD programmes this year will fail due to enterprise deployment of MDM measures that are too restrictive.