The consumerisation of IT is a much talked about theme of the last ten years or so. The definition per Wikipedia is:
Consumerization … describes the trend for new information technology to emerge first in the consumer market and then spread into business organizations, resulting in the convergence of the IT and consumer electronics industries, and a shift in IT innovation from large businesses to the home. For example, many people now find that their home based IT equipment and services are both more capable and less expensive than what is provided in their workplace.
A newer but perhaps unsurprising trend is for enterprise software companies to start adopting the disciplines of consumer internet companies, or the ‘consumerisation of enterprise sofware’. I had an inkling that things were heading in this direction back in 2007 when I wrote about edge-in adoption of social software at the enterprise, and now I think they are finally getting there.
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Author: Nic Brisbourne
