This reminds me of the old days when IT meant mainframes and terminals. User groups started setting up their own LANs and escaping our control. Various disasters relating to bad updates, security issues and such eventually brought the LANs under IT control. We are repeating history here, probably with the same results.
Linda On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:21 PM, David Lum <david....@nwea.org> wrote: > I disagree with this guy, but maybe because I’m so oldschool..**** > > ** ** > > “Dion Hinchcliffe, an analyst at the Dachis Group and a frequent blogger > on the changing enterprise, says it's time for IT to acknowledge they can't > control users. **** > > **** > > "Everyone in an organization is the IT department. There's really no > gatekeeper anymore."**** > > **** > > Hinchcliffe, who's delivering a keynote at the CITE One-Day Forum in New > York City on October 10, says that users are driving technology adoption in > two critical areas: communciations, and self-service IT -- particularly in > the form of mobile apps delivered through public app stores.**** > > **** > > The latter is particularly hard for some IT shops to accept, but it's > reality, says Hinchcliffe. **** > > **** > > "IT depts are being disintermediated in a relentless way, and so quickly > they can't even react to it. There are millions of apps in these app > stores, they're disposable and free, they're easy to throw away if you want > to." He continues, "We're all consumers. That's the whole point of > consumerization. We're all smart enough, we have tools, we can select and > acquire software in minutes, try a whole bunch of things, and find the > perfect thing for the task at hand. That cycle cant be supported by > bureaucracy."**** > > **** > > Full article here:**** > > ** ** > > > http://www.citeworld.com/consumerization/20680/dion-hinchcliffe-everyone-IT?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+citeworld%2Frss+%28CITEworld%29 > **** > > ** ** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
