Who needs IT experts? Workers take control

Great article from Reuters entitled Who needs IT experts? Workers take control. Basically it's talking about the concept of Web 2.0 as disruptive technology and is saying the sort of thing that you and I have known for ever, which is that people are getting increasingly sick to the back teeth with their IT departments blocking what they want to do. It's worth reading this article in its entirety but I'll give you a few favourite quotes:

Analyst Rebecca Wettemann of software research firm Nucleus Research says her company's surveys of corporate technology users frequently turn up the question: "Why can't I do what I want without getting an OK from IT?"

"Individual people, not IT organizations, are driving the next wave of (technology) adoption," Forrester Research said in a recent report.

"IT managers have served as corporate gatekeepers. With software on demand, average people are able to explore and access and do much more than they have in the past," Wettemann says. "That power is going away," she said of central control.