Confirmed: outside consumer forces drive enterprise technology

Written by James Robertson, published August 8, 2007

Categorised under: Information management

Joe McKendrick has summarised recent research on enterprise technology adoption. To quote:

Ben Worthen, writing in the Wall Street Journal’s business technology blog, cites a new study from Yankee Group, which confirmed that 86% of employees say that they “use at least one consumer-oriented tech tool that isn’t supported by the IT department — things like instant messaging, USB drives, and iPhones — in the workplace, with the average employee using four.”