By accident I got involved in IT, doing data entry in a system they were building as we were working with it. And this is were I figured out my talent and interest. It took a while, but here I am.
The image in the header was shot with my iPhone 3GS. It does not have a great lens but, as with most technology, it’s what you do with it that defines the results. As usability has a large impact to what you can do with systems, I have always found that an extremely important aspect. It staggers me so many still don’t get that. The easier to use the tools, the more they will be used.
And the IT landscape is changing, continuously, but seemingly ever faster. Technology is within reach of everyone. Many people have better connectivity and tools at home, and they’d like to use these at work too.
There is a huge benefit to that. Because they have them at home people already know how to use these tools. That means less need for training and higher productivity. And what could possibly be better than people liking the tools they work with?
Clearly there are also risks related to that, like information security and knowledge drain. Which is why many IT shops try to stop their staff from using them. I think that approach is wrong. What IT needs to do is bring the tools people use at home, to their staff, so they are happy to use them.
I run my job with a Mac, and iPhone, Google Apps, Skype, Dropbox and a WordPress blog. All of these are generally not considered to be enterprise tools, which may be partly why I liked them. This blog is about that kinds of approach and that kind of tools. And this is why I call it CIO 2.0. The modern approach to corporate IT.
