After Hours

Welcome to After Hours, the Rank + File weblog covering the consumerization of enterprise IT.

Rank + File offers essential intelligence for CIOs and IT leaders on the technology their users bring inside the organization, by hook or by crook.

  1. BYOPC in the enterprise? You may already be living it

    Brian Madden had an interesting perspective:

    If your users have admin rights, then you’re already doing it. (The “own” part isn’t literal).

    What this means is that organizations allowing users to install applications on their own … are only going through a charade of any sort of agressive desktop management. Not that this is a bad thing.  Just a real thing.

  2. Paradox of high-spend, low quality business technologies

    Enterprise users are legitimately asking why their business partners—organizations that may be benefitting from millions of dollars in spending—subject them to experiences so inferior to those they enjoy from consumer-oriented organizations for free. This paradox is the fundamental force behind the consumerization of the enterprise.

    - Geoff Cubitt
    The Forces Behind, and Against, Consumerization of the Enterprise

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