Monday, August 16th, 2010
Forrester Research recently issued a report stating that Apple’s iOS has reached the point where iPhones and iPads can be safely deployed for most enterprises. The report should spark great interest among enterprises caught up in the consumerization trend. But a more basic question should be asked. Why are people so interested in the iPhone [...]
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
I’ve been thinking about how to best describe what consumerization is doing to the IT world, and how the trend is affecting the way IT services are delivered and experienced. The following analogy seems most apt to me. Very few people in the world can write music. A larger number, but still a relatively small [...]
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Thursday, July 15th, 2010
The recent Unisys-sponsored global study on the consumerization of IT confirms that consumer technologies are rapidly making their way into the business world. But what specific technologies are having the greatest impact on the enterprise? We know these include mobile devices and social computing, but are there others?
Here are five core consumer technology trends that [...]
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Yesterday, InformationWeek’s Esther Shein covered the Unisys-IDC consumerization of IT study in an article titled, “IT Unprepared For Flood Of Consumer Devices, Apps.” Head over to InformationWeek to catch Esther’s reporting on the study and the trend.
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Friday, June 18th, 2010
The recent Unisys-sponsored global study on the consumerization of IT has confirmed that the consumer adoption of new technology is a strong and growing trend. However, it also highlights that organizations are on the defensive and do not have a clear vision or a plan to manage this big change coming their way. Given that [...]
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