Really dumb theory of the week
Phew!
And let Ernie - the drummer - remove your appendix
Industry observers use the term “consumerization” to describe the phenomenon whereby office workers are less likely to wait for the IT folks to equip them.
Analyst Rebecca Wettemann of software research firm Nucleus Research says her company’s surveys of corporate technology users frequently turn up the question: “Why can’t I do what I want without getting an OK from IT?”
“Individual people, not IT organizations, are driving the next wave of (technology) adoption,” Forrester Research said in a recent report.
Forrester refers to the movement toward user control and individual empowerment as “Technology Populism,” others refer to it as “Office 2.0.” Less sympathetically, consulting firm Yankee Group, in a 2007 report entitled “Zen and the Art of Rogue Employee Management,” sees it as a threat for IT managers…
“IT managers have served as corporate gatekeepers. With software on demand, average people are able to explore and access and do much more than they have in the past,” Wettemann says. “That power is going away,” she said of central control…
“Established software companies like Microsoft have less ability to promise a product in the future and have customers wait for it,” Wettemann says. “When something I can find on the Web does 70 percent of what I want, today, why should I wait?”
Of course, questions of security, interoperability, quality results might trump populist creativity.
Posted: Sat - March 8, 2008 at 03:27 PM