Ryan McCune
Ryan McCune is the global lead for Avanade's infrastructure consulting solutions. In this role he looks after growth and strategy for Avanade's desktop transformation, elastic datacenter, and messaging migration (including cloud / Office 365) solutions. In addition, Ryan looks after product and offering development for Workplace Enablement Services (WES) - a virtual organization across Accenture and Avanade. WES delivers workplace transformation, communications and collaboration, and workplace infrastructure outsourcing.
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Competitive Advantage through Consumerization
The consumerization of IT market trend is considered by many to be a ‘nice to have’. The topic is frequently framed around employee freedom and democratization which yield soft benefits like employee satisfaction and retention. My take is that these are secondary benefits. Business users who have the flexibility to consume enterprise applications in [...]
Enterprise App Stores: Not Quite a Click and a Swipe
Lots of interest and chatter about app stores in the enterprise. While the popular consumer-facing app stores are single platform, the consumerization trend requires that enterprise app stores deliver more. It’s not quite as simple as a click and credit card swipe for most of the clients I’ve worked with but the benefits of self-service and [...]
A Perspective on Desktop Virtualization
One of the topics that frequently accompanies Consumerization of IT is an all but inevitable shift towards device freedom and ultimately bring your own device (BYOD). While it’s easy to speculate on the consumerization trend, it’s rather difficult for real-world enterprise IT to provide predictable and reliable services in a world where device diversity is the new assumption. Check out our perspective (click [...]
Consumerization: Beyond Devices
Like Moore’s Law, the Consumerization of IT is a trend. You can’t touch it, you can’t buy it, and you can’t install it. Though devices tend to be the hot button item, consumerization is about the broad adoption of consumer technology in the workplace. This includes software (apps), social computing, new collaboration patterns in the cloud, and [...]
The Effects of Consumerization on the CIO
The enterprise workplace environment is being reshaped as the boundaries between corporate and personal lives blur through the collision of overlapping forces. For CIOs, the entrance of rogue consumer technologies means that they are no longer in complete control of the organization’s IT environment. CIOs need to balance the opportunities behind adoption of consumer [...]
Consumerization: Getting to the High-Order Bit
In my role at Avanade, I’m very fortunate to be able to visit with organizations around the globe helping them formulate and implement workplace technology solutions. Whether in Stockholm or Singapore, Sydney or Seattle you can’t have a conversation about enterprise IT strategy without a long discussion on the role of ‘consumerization’ in the workplace. [...]
