Thomas Howe

Congratulations to one of our media partners John Musser at ProgrammableWeb on his terrific collaboration with IBM. Here is the link to the ZD NET article and Video Cast.
One of the cultural challenges facing CIOs and IT departments is the fact that more and more employees aka digital natives are coming to work with their own tools. Yes, many of those tools are for entertainment or social networking purposes. But, why use the out of date LAN locked project management tool when a free or cheap web tool works so much better. The “because I told you so” answer doesn’t work on so many levels anymore.

It is thrilling to envision libraries/archives/toolboxes filled with mashups, widgets, ingredients that are available for all the employees in an organization to use and share creatively. A CIO or IT department that finds ways to empower employees to improve or customize internal business processes will have little trouble justifying their own departmental budgets or building needed organizational alliances.