Are we moving towards an era of IT artisanry?
Steve Duncan over at “A Visit To Lornitropia” talks about the ease of use of setting up your own IT infrastructure and ponders whether renegade IT is the wave of the future…
I do happen to agree that there is somewhat of a trend here. Increasingly, and especially in smaller startups, but also in bigger companies, I have noticed employees using their own laptops, their own PDA’s/cell and other tools. From there to have individuals buy or rent their own applications is not too far off. In fact, we already saw some of that happen when I was with eRoom (a collaboration applications vendor). While our solution was not quite bought by individuals, but by teams of people, by the time the CIO’s office of one of the major 5 consulting/accounting firms (that’s how many there were then, ok!) decided to standardize on eRoom, they already had 8,000 users that had bypassed IT.
Maybe it is a trend back towards artisanry - knowledge workers (or tacit workers as McKinsey calls them) coming to work with their own tools!
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