All IT resources/services/etc should go through the IT/purchasing area of any organization.
This greatly will control the flood of staff going rogue and making purchases without any forethought of support, cost, and value.
Shut em' down.
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Looking at the problem from another angle, is there any justification in having a dedicated IT department any more? What value do they bring to the business?
In ten years time will they have gone the way of the dodo? (OK, make that 30 years for public sector)
Certainly in small organisations BYOD is fast becoming the norm.
In ten years time will they have gone the way of the dodo? (OK, make that 30 years for public sector)
Certainly in small organisations BYOD is fast becoming the norm.
I would say having a centralised system that works properly is better than having everyone getting whatever they want which may or may not work with everything else or even deliver on all it's promises.
IT department doesn't have to be a huge team of people, it might just be one guy or maybe representatives from different departments coming together to decide (and be responsible for) what software/hardware gets used. In a small business it might be the sales guy, the receptionist and a worker.
IT department doesn't have to be a huge team of people, it might just be one guy or maybe representatives from different departments coming together to decide (and be responsible for) what software/hardware gets used. In a small business it might be the sales guy, the receptionist and a worker.
When the corporate culture is such that IT is considered a cost center and is perennially underfunded by 15 ??? 40% rouge developments naturally occur. Business units get tired of hearing NO from the IT department, they have to try to stay competitive. IT does not have the resources to support their existing programs much less additional new systems or programs so the business units are left to their own devices.
If the corporate culture is such that IT is considered a profit center and not just a necessary evil new processes and systems are looked at from a profit and competitiveness perspective and shadow IT naturally becomes a non starter.
If the corporate culture is such that IT handles the technical details of networking and capacity while the individual business units are left to their own devices to develop the business processes and applications shadow IT can again become an issue.
With the security postures today IT must be a centrally controlled, all powerful group managed at the highest level that has inputs into the business processes and systems for all business units connected to the network or the security house of cards can come crashing down hard and fast. There can be no shadow IT in the secure network!
If the corporate culture is such that IT is considered a profit center and not just a necessary evil new processes and systems are looked at from a profit and competitiveness perspective and shadow IT naturally becomes a non starter.
If the corporate culture is such that IT handles the technical details of networking and capacity while the individual business units are left to their own devices to develop the business processes and applications shadow IT can again become an issue.
With the security postures today IT must be a centrally controlled, all powerful group managed at the highest level that has inputs into the business processes and systems for all business units connected to the network or the security house of cards can come crashing down hard and fast. There can be no shadow IT in the secure network!
Look up the difference between "rogue" and "rouge". It really makes the rest of the post pointless.
Take it as a workaround. So many of my students couldn't spell ' rogue' and it always came out as 'rouge' on exams. I almost consider is as a synonym. Think of it as a bright red acne spot on an unblemished IT system!
Should the Network/Business Security people now be a separate department from IT, so that anyone setting up a personal network could get it checked out without implicating the IT department? As Security needs to know about the systems in place, they could be the impartial helper in minimising duplication.
Same ol' same ol'. The business executives and top management want bleeding edge technology, but don't want to have to pay for it, so they fall for every shyster with a hand full of magic beans. Bare in mind, this cat will quickly lose patience with them as customers as soon as he has to try and support every new whiz-bang gadget that comes down the pike and all the special edge cases of the business start to break his $59.00 a month canned solution.
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