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"A prior post, describes the forces shaping the consumerization of management and driving a connected, open, information and innovation intensive workplace. Those qualities go beyond traditional management with its focus on control, predictability, process and efficiency. The figure below compares corporate and consumerized management."
This article summarizes the user support pitfalls facing enterprise IT shops as consumer devices proliferate among employees. Calls out important issues around business productivity and time spent by employees troubleshooting their devices in the absence of a robust support infrastructure. Those smartphones and tablets are wonderful, except when they're not. Instead of telling employees they're on their own, IT must bone up on consumer tech support. More: http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/232601410
A detiled Q&A with Amit Singh, head of Google's enterprise business, on Google's big bet on Consumerization of IT: "Take a popular consumer product, make a few small enhancements and tack the words "for business" on the end of the name. Sound simplistic? Turns out, it works."
Apple Inc., without much effort on its part, is making rapid headway in selling to corporations.
The dynamic and personalized aspects of consumer technologies have entered the
enterprise and corporate IT has an opportunity to embrace this trend to drive
business agility.
Consumerization of IT isn't just about Apple. CIO Magazine looks at the arrival of Android devices in the enterprise. The IT pro response is somewhat surprising: "Interestingly, a lot of IT guys are rooting for Android. The reason, I think, is
that there's some unexpressed hope that they can lock down the Android OS. They
can put on what they want. They can do the monitoring. They can do the auditing.
They can reconfigure and redeploy with their own image."
Fascinating look at the impact of consumerization on distributed data gathering - As data and analytics tools become more prevalent and easier for people of all walks of life to access, this consumerization of data is opening up a glut of opportunities for quality of life improvements in different corners of the world.
The “consumerization of IT” - defined as the use of technologies that can easily be provisioned by non-technologists - is a hot topic among CIOs these days.
Consumerization is now the primary driver of the mobile universe, and CIOs must be ready to embrace a range of more-flexible approaches to their mobile strategy, according to Gartner, Inc.
Bill Detwiler outlines factors that are both driving forward and holding back widespread tablet adoption in the enterprise.
IBM has embraced the growing 'bring your own device' trend by allowing its employees to buy and use their own smartphones and tablets for work tasks, said IBM's CTO for mobility, Bill Bodin.
Good sanity check from BusinessWeek on the outlook for the iPad - When we see reports that claim Apple is losing ground, those numbers more often than not reflect shipments, not actual sales to consumers, as Kevin Tofel pointed out. Many Android devices reported to have shipped are likely sitting on store shelves, whereas Apple’s numbers represent devices actively in use by consumers.
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Technology is changing the nature of work and the terms of management. By creating a work environment that is: *Connected in terms of bringing people together where ever and when ever without restrictions based on position in the organization. *Information intensive focusing on data and decisions as the key resources for creating value, directing processes and producing outcomes. *Open in the sense that barriers to resources, expertise and productive capacity are falling in the world of globalized supply chain, trade and services. *Innovation intensive as growth becomes harder to achieve, sustain and extend in a more competitive, complicated, and constrained market. Where there is slow or challenging growth, there is a greater need for innovation.
The phenomenon is only growing stronger. Here's what IT and business leaders need to know. Good survey of the key issues surrounding consumerization. From an IT buyer / CIO perspective.
The study was aimed at understanding the breadth and depth of this phenomenon; its drivers, benefits and drawbacks; and the strategies companies are using to manage it. The Accenture Institute for High Performance creates strategic insights into key management issues through original research and analysis. Its management researchers combine world-class reputations with Accenture’s extensive consulting, technology and outsourcing experience to conduct innovative research and analysis into how organizations become and remain high-performance businesses.
Microsoft is encouraging third-party Kinect creativity more actively, recognizing that its device truly belongs to the world.
Supply chain, economic and technological developments are driving innovation in consumer electronics and computing at an ever greater rate. The result? More variety and often better user experiences with consumer technology and enterprise products.
Don’t look now, but many company employees are turning off their company-issued laptops and BlackBerrys. They prefer to use their personal devices—sleek, mobile and intuitive—rather than the company-sanctioned technologies perceived as outdated and hard to use. This emerging trend hit me hard when Dan Matthews, CTO at IFS, an ERP vendor based in Sweden, introduced me to his company’s recent survey of 281 managers in manufacturing companies. In a nutshell, the survey says that managers are far less likely to use IT’s large, expensive enterprise systems (like ERP and CRM) if the application interface is difficult to use. And they expect to get the corporate information they want by using their iOS or Android devices to gain remote access to corporate systems. More: http://www.cio.com/article/693030/Employees_Refusing_to_Use_Clunky_Enterprise_Software
Writes Gibbs: "In this blog I'll be covering information technology-related products and services that are moving from the enterprise and the Small and Medium Business (SMB) worlds down to the Small Office Home Office (SOHO) and consumer markets. It's about the trend for high tech products from the enterprise world to migrate towards consumers and for consumer products to migrate into the workplace. This two way migration is both disruptive and transformative to the how, why, and when we do business."
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