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

• 24 Aug 09
  

  Phil Ashman

  IT

• 30 Mar 09
  

  Randy Fine

  corporate IT bad

• 18 Mar 09
  

  Adriana Lukas

  business technology IT innovation productivity corydoctorow corporations delicious

• 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

  IT filtering blocking innovation

• 13 Mar 09
  

  arllennium arllennium

  technology

  • 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

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  • • 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
• 12 Mar 09
  

  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.

  IT

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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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