The High Priests of IT — And the Heretics - Now, New, Next - HarvardBusiness.org - The Diigo Meta page

• 24 Aug 09
  

  Phil Ashman

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  Randy Fine

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• 18 Mar 09
  

  Adriana Lukas

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• 14 Mar 09
  

  farroutlinks Farr

  Interesting blog article...favorite quote: "The dirty secret of corporate IT is that its primary mission is to serve yesterday's technology needs, even if that means strangling tomorrow's technology solutions." by Cory Doctorow

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• 13 Mar 09
  

  arllennium arllennium

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  • Contemporary corporate IT's top job is locking down the PC and the network,  blocking users from installing their own apps, blocking them from accessing  forbidden websites (nominally this is about blocking porn, but a dismaying  number of workplaces also block IM, webmail, blogs, message-boards, and social  networking services where employees might otherwise find useful, low-cost  coordination with other employees, suppliers and customers), and spying on their  every click and keystroke to capture the occasional bad egg who's saying or  doing something that could put the whole firm at risk.

  • The dirty secret of corporate IT is that its primary mission is to serve  yesterday's technology needs, even if that means strangling tomorrow's technology solutions. The myth of corporate  IT is that it alone possesses the wisdom to decide which technologies will allow  the workers on the front line to work better, faster and smarter — albeit with  the occasional lackluster requirements-gathering process, if you're lucky.

     

    The fact is that the most dreadful violators of corporate policy
  • are also the most enthusiastic users of technology, the ones most apt to come up  with the next out-of-left-field efficiency for the firm

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• 12 Mar 09
  

  jfbradfo

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  Net Volution

  Why IT departments need to embrace the power of the internet and empower those users who take advantage of it instead of trying to inhibit them.

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  glen gatin

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  Though I've done time in corporate IT — and have even born the CIO title more than once — I've always had more sympathy for the firewall-breaking, virus-toting, data-leaking users than I have for the responsible and sober IT departments that struggle ever

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  Geekgirl 397

  the most dreadful violators of corporate policy ...are also the most enthusiastic users of technology, the ones most apt to come up with the next out-of-left-field efficiency for the firm.
  There has to be a way to bring those people inside the church, rat

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