Last week, we co-hosted our first #WRDChat on Twitter with independent technology analyst Maribel Lopez and Avanade’s CTIO Florin Rotar. The topic focused on what we call Work Redesigned – how the adoption of mobile and consumer technologies in the workplace are changing the way we work. It was a great dialogue with folks [...]
I’ve been reflecting on the great week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013 in Barcelona last month. This was a very large and noisy event that brought together over 70,000 attendees and 1,500 vendors, including Avanade, across the mobility space. There were lots of really interesting trends coming out of the event, both [...]
It’s no surprise that smartphones and tablets help people be more successful and productive in their personal lives. But did you know that use of consumer devices in the workplace is helping businesses succeed on a number of levels? Our recent survey shows that as new consumer technologies such as mobile devices gained traction in the enterprise, [...]
Watching my kids dance to Donna Summers “Hot Stuff” on Dance Central 2 at the local Microsoft retail store I began to realize that this game console may single handedly solve the obesity problem in the United States. Rather than spending endless hours on the couch honing their hand eye coordination playing Halo or the [...]
We’ve been talking a lot about the consumerization of IT here at Avanade, including the results of our latest global survey that tackles company perspectives on the trend. Our CTO, Tyson Hartman, highlights some of the myths that our survey dispelled in Forbes this week. Here’s a quick excerpt of the story: “The tale [...]
Today, I’m excited to announce Avanade’s latest global research findings addressing the impact of consumerization of IT. As we’ve heard from executives and IT departments of our customers, and as noted in the press, we found that there is a rapid shift in the way employees are using personal technology in the workplace. In fact, globally, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
