Monday, November 8th, 2010
There were two statistics that came out of our recent poll of information workers will be particularly interesting to IT leadership. Both address the purchase of the electronic devices IT workers use to be more productive in their jobs:
1) Nearly three-quarters of these workers indicated that they would be willing to pay at least part of [...]
Read More
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
New Zealand blog site Voxy.co.nz drilled down on the implications for the IT and finance departments of employees bringing their own technology devices to work in David Silversmith’s post BYOC – Bring Your Own Computer. The article quotes Sam Gross and results of the recent Unisys online poll which asked the question, “What percentage of [...]
Read More
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Does social computing, like other technologies, follow a defined life cycle in the enterprise?
I think so, and recently wrote on the subject in an article I contributed to ComputerWorld. The gist of the article is that social computing has both a technology adoption life cycle and a technology adaptation life cycle.
A technology adoption life cycle [...]
Read More
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Yesterday, InformationWeek featured a second story about the Unisys-IDC research. Esther Shein’s article, “IT Pros Willing To Buy Their Own Tech,” includes the finding that about 75 percent of enterprise employees are willing to fund all or part of the cost of workflow-related technology. But there’s one catch: They’ll only pay if they can choose [...]
Read More
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
USA Today’s Byron Acohido, reporter for Technology Live, featured the Unisys-IDC consumerization of IT study yesterday. Byron’s article, “Survey: office workers more mobile, use tech to work around the clock,” spotlights statistics and trends from the research. Head over to USA Today to read the full article.
Read More