Corporate Communications - Managing SMS and IM Among The Mobile Workforce

Customers and partners dictate how we organizationsthe implementation of email monitoring and archiving
communicate with them today. However, thissolutions previously.
communication causes business protection andHowever, due the fact that there will be some people
technology management issues. Some say "forcewho will not want to carry two mobile devices, one for
everyone to use email", which is an impractical solutioncompany use and one for personal use, the company
in today's marketplace.could work with the Telcos on providing the
For this reason, I offer the following alternative:employees with dual SIM cards, one for personal use
Company Issued Mobile Devices with Optionaland the other for company business, which would fall
Monitoring/Archivinginto the same category as above. Once again,
Telcos would be required to come up with corporatesuccess of this will depend on the telcos ability to
packages which include company issued mobileprovided good incentives for people to transfer their
devices WITH monitoring and/or archiving, as additionalpersonal phone accounts to the company telco
optional services. For those companies who wish toservice provider.
adopt this type of a solution, an internal policy wouldAs you can see, the above solutions would satisfy
need to be established, communicated and signed byboth the corporate requirements and employee
each employee. The policy would be similar to existingpersonal privacy, while also creating a new revenue
email and other confidentiality policies currently in place,stream for the telcos through these new corporate
highlighting the company's right to monitor and/orpackages with monitoring/archiving as an optional
archive all activity performed using the companyadditional service. With the imminent explosion SMS as
issued device. This will provide the company with thea business tool, I believe we will also see convergence
protection they need and will, no doubt, also forcein technologies between telco service providers and
employee behavioral changes as we have seen witharchiving solution providers.