Comments on: Goodby, Shadow IT – Hello, Shadow IT

By: From Business-IT Alignment to Business-IT Convergence « IT Organization Circa 2017

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:01:44 +0000

[...] to Business-IT Convergence as an aspect of increasing business and IT maturity. I’ve noted (Goodbye, Shadow IT – Hello, Shadow IT) that ‘Shadow IT’, often viewed as a problem to be solved might be more appropriately [...]

By: To Centralize or Decentralize IT - That Was The Question… « IT Organization Circa 2017

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:48:42 +0000

[...] to anything other than themselves. (such departments are often referred to as “Shadow IT.”) Sometimes these departments were interested in systems that were standalone and had [...]

By: Susan Scrupski

Susan Scrupski — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:02:43 +0000

Hi Vaughan. Shhhh! Don’t write about this! There is still enough market confusion and early adoption going on in the Enterprise 2.0 space that we need not start discussing, well, reality.

I blogged about this nearly one year to the day: http://susanitsa.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/mokita-the-truth-that-everyone-knows-but-no-one-talks-about/
The comments are worth reading too. The truth is, much of Enterprise 2.0 is taking place “under the radar” of IT for many of the reasons you mentioned. Where it’s headed is unclear at this point. Many enterprise 2.0 tools specifically promote the end-user ease of adoption (sans IT, btw). See this overview page at Central Desktop: http://www.centraldesktop.com/tour_overview. I am participating in one of our fabulous Research projects on “Redefining End-user Computing.” It is one of our most popular research projects with many F500 companies participating. Alas, the dialog is beginning!