implications of social media for it departments
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challenges for IT departments due to changes in user expectations arising from social computingTRANSCRIPT
Kate CarruthersCeBIT Australia WebForward
May 2009
Implications of Social Computing for IT
Departments
Life used to be different
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But things have changed
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Business tempo used to be different
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Democratisation of technology
• Users can do much of it without us
• They have better tech @ home now
• SaaS offerings are there via port 80 & a credit card
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BIG CHALLENGE: How do we manage this?
Big Impacts on IT Departments
• Complexity & cost – IT departments can’t do it all anymore
• Faster operational tempo – from years/months to days/minutes
• Democratization of technology – harder to control users when they just go to the cloud
• Social computing – is changing user expectations as consumers & employees
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