Today’s business talent is increasingly provided by digital natives who expect to be able to shape technology to their needs.
Yet enterprise IT frequently disables, locking people into old ways of working that block collaboration or frustrate good ideas simply because they don’t fit or cost too much to implement.
Today’s businesses are seeing a rapidly growing gap between their appetite for digital change and the IT resources they have available to deliver it. Swamped by legacy systems, siloed data and locked-down budgets CIOs are often forced to maintain the integrity of the company’s traditional information systems at the expense of meeting its digital needs. In response many business people turn to ‘shadow IT’ such as spreadsheets, ‘quick and dirty’ application development or third-party cloud services – creating huge potential security and scalability headaches.