Building trust and partnership requires credible performance, accountability, common goals, and clear roles for all partnership members, which happens when leadership -- both business and IT -- defines the relationship in these terms.

The new mobile freedom is germinating a sense of self-reliance in users. Recent controversies such as high-profile privacy leaks of celebrities' photos and similar stories have gained enormous coverage in the press and loom large in mobile users' minds. They see themselves at risk, personally. This is an opportunity for tutelage that users' employers should seize. Better digital hygiene can reduce risks and let a user rest easier. And it can provide IT security directors with a glimmer of light at the end of a very dark tunnel.

The IoT should not be viewed as only a technological opportunity. It has the potential to transform how people and business interact in significant ways. Therefore, people must be placed at the center of the IoT conversation.

Our decision making appears to improve when we increase awareness and communication about decisions and the principles we're using to make them. Establishing a method and criteria and laying out the alternatives allow us to critique and learn -- both from our successes and from our failures.

Hillel Glazer

Guest Editor