Speaking at a RIM BlackBerry event in Sydney, CIO of Dematic Asia-Pacific, Allan Davies, and IDC associate vice president for Asia-Pacific, Tim Dillon, said BYOD can mean workers bringing all sorts of devices into the workplace posing a lot of risk and creating a lot work for IT.

However, BYOD doesn't necessarily have to mean that anything and everything has to be supported in the workplace. Choose your own device (CYOD) means organisations limit the range of hardware they can support where workers choose from a selection of devices that can also be easily replaced if something were to happen to a device."

"I think choosing your own device is that you can at least prepare for those breakdown situations," Davies said.

"If an employee said, 'I want to bring in this Android device', we could say, 'OK, we have those in our choice. You can use your own but if yours breaks we will temporarily give you ours.'"

Dillon said a CYOD strategy could mean organisations having their own corporate architecture, where workers don't necessarily need to bring in an external device to help them carry out their work.