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Monday, March 31, 2008

If you really want productivity ...

This is a side effect of Moore's Law, the famous idea that processing power doubles every two years. As technology becomes less expensive, more companies can be competitive with their products.

More choices at lower prices is shifting the balance of power to the end user and away from corporate IT departments. And people have their own preferences for the way they get their work done. The iPhone is having such an effect. From the Wall Street Journal's Why IT Hates the iPhone:

"Whereas software vendors and other tech suppliers traditionally pitched their products to high-ranking executives and IT managers, some are now paying closer attention to the technologies workers actually use. Some vendors say that if employees make clear that they are going to embrace a particular device -- with or without their IT department's approval -- then they will develop compatible products for it. Otherwise, they risk losing business to rivals.

" 'It's clear to us that power is shifting to the users' and away from IT departments, says Mike de la Cruz, a vice president at business-software maker SAP AG. 'So we've changed our strategy to focus on the users.'"

posted by Tim Beidel at 3/31/2008 10:47:00 AM

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