COPE defined — “Corporate-owned, personally enabled”

What’s the opposite of BYOD?

For a while, I’ve been using the term “enterprise-supply”, but it turns out that the industry has already been trying to get at term started for this and it’s COPE, or “corporate-owned, personally enabled”.

What I’ve found in my limited digging is that no one seems to use this term, although it gets lots of hits on Google for it. (Not linked as Google is so changeable.)

It’s a terrible acronym. Repurposing a word for an acronym rarely works. BYOD works because it’s e...