Strategies and Trends for Information Technology Leaders
Shadow IT has worried CIOs for decades. The practice is often defended as a source of innovation and a faster-than-normal way for users to get their jobs done but this off the radar technology use by employees presents serious dangers to the corporation ranging from increased security threats to compliance issues. Dealing with the problem…
The early November news had to rock the old computing industry titans: now Citibank and Bank of America both are eyeballing possible adoption of the iPhone. This comes on top of an already extraordinary year for Apple which, little by little, is sneaking into the biggest businesses. At Citrix Systems, for instance, employees who want…
Smartphones are invading the enterprise record numbers especially now that several models have a price tag of under $100 (with carrier subsidies). The question for IT is whether they’ll get ahead of this trend or struggle to catch up (as they did with WiFi, laptops, and removable storage devices). “People don’t treat smartphones the same…
The use of gadgets such as smartphones and other hand held devices may make employees more productive, but they haven’t made the workplace more polite, a new survey suggests. More than half (51%) of CIOs report an increase in instances of poor workplace etiquette resulting from more frequent use of mobile electronic devices, according to…