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6 ways consumerization of it adds to your bottom line
6 Ways Consumerization of IT Adds to Your Bottom Line
posted by Anna Mar, December 18, 2011
The Consumerization of IT is a potent concept — use consumer devices and software for the enterprise.
It can mean allowing your employees to pick their own mobile devices. It can mean using cheap throw away consumer processors in your data center. It can even mean allowing teams to pick their own SaaS applications.
The benefits to your organization's bottom line may include:
1. Decentralization of ITDeployment of heterogeneous consumer technologies, mobile locations and SaaS applications represents a highly decentralized architecture. Such configurations may be resilient in the face of a security threat or disaster scenario.
2. Productive EmployeesEmployees who are free to discover and install their own applications may be more productive.
3. Lower CostsConsumer technologies benefit from greater economies of scale and are typically cheaper than enterprise technologies.
4. Constant Research & InnovationEmployees and departments who are free to test software and devices will try out a great variety of technologies. This decentralized model of technology research and evaluation may spark innovation. When one individual or department finds a good tool — it's likely to spread throughout your organization.
5. Happy EmployeesSlow, restrictive and highly administrative processes for procuring new technologies are a frequent complaint about IT. Allowing employees to choose devices and install applications is always popular (when costs can be expensed).
6. Free IT ResourcesIT consumerization can free IT resources from research, development, deployment and support of productivity devices and software. This allows IT to focus on revenue generating opportunities, process automation, data access, analytics and security — core IT functions that add more value.
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