Authors: Robin Murdoch; Jeanne Harris and Glenn Devore
Today’s employees are increasingly abandoning enterprise IT—both hardware and software—in favor of consumer technologies that promise greater freedom and more fun.
They are buying their own iPhones and Droids, and tapping into Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to get information, both for business and pleasure. As consumer technologies such as smart phones and social media become ever more powerful and useful, IT leaders face difficult questions about how to adapt when employees use them in the workplace . While definitive answers are elusive, they must be grappled with today if enterprise IT is not to be pushed completely to the sidelines in the next few years.