Monday, February 21st, 2011
You might remember that Unisys commissioned an in-depth study on the consumerization of IT from IDC in 2010. It exposed a serious gap between how IT leadership and information workers view the IT support capabilities provided by their organizations.
The full body of data uncovered by IDC was so rich that we decided to present the results in [...]
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Friday, December 10th, 2010
This week’s consumerization of IT news swirled around a prediction about how people will get online in 2011, the growth of the mobile workforce, and tablets in the enterprise. Read on to see what headlines are making the rounds in IT departments everywhere.
Computerworld reports on a projection that has major implications for the enterprise: “In [...]
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Friday, November 12th, 2010
This week’s consumerization of IT headlines hit on Apple products in the enterprise, security implications associated with CoIT, and the hot debate regarding multinational organizations’ use of consumer technologies. Read on to see what news made waves this week.
ReadWriteWeb has a good argument for enterprise support of the iPad: 4 Reasons Enterprise IT Should Support the [...]
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
If you’re not in the c-suite, you should forward this week’s articles to IT leadership. If you are IT leadership, these headlines highlight the reasons you should be concerned about consumerization, including the cost associated with Web 2.0 security breaches, challenges of managing a consumer workforce, and the unknown future of IT. Scan the articles [...]
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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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