Harold,

This paradox also is relevant to the wider domains of healthcare and also education: (in terms of personal electronic healthcare records - who owns, controls, shares, pays etc but also in the wider education domain of elearning with the value of walled garden approaches towards elearning (IE via a LMS) vs a more connectivist and distributed approaches.

The commonality across these domains is historical silos/hierarchical models are being confronted with an increasingly networked environment or ecosystem - and so often the response from that institution and its management is to revert to type/flip to reinforcing historical power/control mechanisms.

BYOD and the emerging dynamics of personal clouds/BYOA provide both this opportunity as well as challenges.

Rather than allowing an organisation to revert to type it is the role of the change agent to see opportunity not threat in such situations and to chart a new more productive way forward.

Easier said than done.