William F. Garrity

An item in ZDNet's TechRepublic in my recurring thread that consumer ITC (reminder: information and communication technologies) is more innovative than corporate ITC, at the latter's peril of becoming irrelevant and an obstacle to employees in their work. 

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?
Date: October 20th, 2009
Author: Larry Dignan

Information technology departments are overloaded, missing the consumerization wave, and failing to use new developments to cut their budgets.

Those are some of the takeaways from a Gartner presentation at the IT Symposium in Orlando. The spiel by Gartner analysts David Mitchell Smith and Tom Austin revolves around the state of IT departments as technology is rapidly being changed by their users. How exactly did IT become so crotchety?

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