Confirmed: outside consumer forces drive enterprise technology
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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.”
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