IT's Future: Less Building, More Bundling

With human resources, marketing and other departments going in different technological directions, IT's new mission is to tie all the company's services securely together. The future of corporate IT is less about building stuff and more about tying stuff together. I suppose this might be obvious to some folks, but it is worthwhile to step back and take a look at what is happening to business technology, budgets and the state of the IT profession. Consider the following three developments... Read more on InformationWeek.com.

5 Ways IT Can Stall Social

When it comes to social networking, IT departments can lead, follow, or get out of the way. The IT department can be instrumental in guiding and supporting the use of technology products and processes that move businesses toward their social business goals. It can also even with the best of intentions stall nascent social efforts.

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How IT Can Reclaim Social Relevance

Social technologies are spreading through the business in a decentralized way, not via IT leadership. How can organizations and IT leaders make the most of this trend? If there's anything that's striking about the changes taking place in technology today, it's that many of the most transformative new advances are bypassing the IT department entirely. One only has to look at the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) phenomenon to see this clearly. Most IT departments are planning to enable (if they haven't already) BYOD, a form of user-led computing adoption. It's easier and easier to make the case today that technology, especially on the edges, is increasingly moving out of IT's hands. Read more on InformationWeek.com