Imagineering the next 5 years of Enterprise IT

TREND 1: Mobility & the Independent Employee

Business computing will increasingly happen through tablets and smart phones By 2014, it will be commonplace for organizations to support corporate applications on employee-owned notebooks and smartphones.
- Gartner, 2011.

- Gartner

of IT managers say companies provide workers mobile phone and cover costs, but more than half of employees with iPhone, Android phones and iPads report they purchased the devices themselves.
Courtesy: Mashable: Survey byUnisys and IDC.

48% of information workers buy smartphones for work without considering what their I.T. department supports.
- Forrester, Sep 2011.

TREND 2: The Consumerization of IT

Increased needs for mobility and consumer experience inside corporate walls will provide more fuel for enterprise social.

iWorkers* love personal technology smart phones, tablets, social and cloud-based applications. And now theyre bringing them into the enterprise in droves, ushering in a new wave of consumerization of IT.
- IDC: Closing the Consumerization Gap.

Source: Forrester: Increase Productivity by providing Notebooks beyond Road Warriors Source: IDC: Closing the Consumerization Gap.

TREND 3: The Networked Enterprise

Social will be a major influence in how enterprise systems are designed to work By 2014, social networking services will replace e-mail as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20% of business users
- Gartner, 2010

The imperative for business leaders is clear: falling behind in creating internal and external networks could be a critical mistake.
- The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday. McKinsey Quarterly

Courtesy: marketingtech blog

TREND 4: Social Intelligence

Gaining social outsight, understanding the emergent qualities of the organizational ecosystem will offer unique competitive advantage. Big data may well become a new type of corporate asset that will cut across business units and function much as a powerful brand does, representing a key basis for competition
- McKinsey: Are you ready for the era of big data

Courtesy: marketingtechblog

Capturing big data and doing real-time analysis on it is a core driver of the new Intelligent Enterprise. Its all about analyzing data in motion.
- IDC

The Benefits are Clear

Its no longer experimental

Source: McKinsey Quarterly : The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday.

The Networked Enterprise

A completely different org model

Flow down Hierarchy Social Reward Cognitive Surplus Weak Links

Emergent Nodes Economic Extraction Boundaries

Innovation, Speed, Stability and Scalability

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The Road to the Socially-Suave Organization

There are only two kinds of networks:

Dynamic Or Dead
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The Road to the Socially-Suave Organization

Dont view it as a technology problem it is a whole new organization design. Start small have a purpose, recruit the right early users, populate with content. And start as an outsider limited integration is valuable in the beginning. Make it easy to use network access, enrollment, forgiveness vs. permission. Give it time & freedom emergent properties are layers of structure and usage defining each other. Leave the policing to the community.
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