Consumer Driven IT: The next phase of the consumerization of IT is here: Consumer Driven IT shifts the focus from how consumers are impacting IT to IT’s proactive management of these technologies for business advantage. Consumer Driven IT transforms the way the IT organization delivers IT from an IT-centric to a service-centric model/methodology.
George Watt Consumer Driven IT interview from CA World 2011. In the past, trends were driven by the technophiles for the technophiles. The stark difference today is everyone is driving these IT demands, including consumers, businesses and employees.
While I agree with many of the points that Galen Gruman makes below about “millennial myths” (particularly ones that give us Baby Boomers credit where credit is due!), it remains a fact that there are statistically significant differences in attitudes and habits of the millennials versus older workers when it comes to social collaboration, use of public cloud services, and activities done from smartphones. For proof, take a quick look at our three-page summary of research results on How the Milennials are Accelerating Consumer Driven IT.
Here’s what else was in the IT consumerization news in the last two weeks:
April 3: Offices in the Cloud by Dr. Stephen Turner via CloudComputing80% of workers may be working remotely by 2020, and flexible cloud services provide the vehicle.
Delivering the social business imperative by Rob Koplowitz of Forrester via ZDNet49% of IT surveyed will have social networking initiatives in place in 2012.
April 2: Gartner to IT: get a grip on cloud services by Barb Darrow via CNN MoneyWhy IT should think of itself as a Cloud Services Broker (CSB).
CIO role will disappear in 5 years, say some CFOs by Sam Narisi via IT Manager DailyRecent UK survey from Getronix shows CFOs think CIO will merge with CFO (43%) or disappear completely (17%).
March 31: UC Berkeley Lab receives $10m to research "big data" by Salvador Rodriguez via LA TimesFunding from the national Science Foundation is part of a larger $200M initiative by the Obama Administration focused on big data.
March 30: Millennials aren't the villains or drivers of consumerization by Galen Gruman via InfoWorldLots of myths around the impact of the millennials, but where there’s smoke there’s fire and you still need to include in your strategy.
March 29: The consumerization of IT from a wider angle by Scott Fulton via ReadWrite EnterpriseThere are two powerful forces at work – consumerization and industrialization – continuing a time-honored conflict.
An app revolution manifesto by Tiernan Ray via Barron’sPhil Winslow from Credit Suisse weighs in on a paradigm shift in enterprise software architectures, very similar to IDC’s notion of the “3rd platform”.
March 28: Bring your own tech: IT's missed opportunity by Bob Lewis via InfoWorldBYPC used to mean Bring Your Own Computer, now it means Bring Your own Cloud.
IT must provide collaboration tools people will use by Thor Olavsrud via ITWorld CanadaThe need to collaborate with partners outside the firewall is not being satisfied by approaches that limit options to just email.
March 27: BYOD failure: 5 reasons employees don't want to use their own devices by Ryan Faas via Cult of MacThere are definite downsides to surrendering your personal device to corporate IT policies.
NEW from CA Technologies This Week:
• Great new post by Andi Mann on Eleven tips for a successful cloud computing adoption in Cloud Computing Journal.• Excellent post by Robert Stroud IT moving from "No' to "Know"
Read the complete post at http://community.ca.com/blogs/perspectives/archive/2012/04/06/consumer-driven-it-in-review-13th-edition.aspx