For many folks in the business, the centralized ‘legacy IT’ group is just too damn slow and expensive and has too many rules. So why not fire up Excel and nab a few SaaS accounts and just get stuff done?
With the accelerated adoption and normalization of cloud computing, consumerization and no-code applications, there are many parts of the business that are operating as a quasi-technology groups.
Pockets of the enterprise are independently running their own little IT fiefdoms without any real central oversight and no one is the wiser.
Sometimes this is okay. Sometimes it really really isn’t.
We got deep into this topic in the latest episode of the Consultants Saying Things video podcast.
In this episode:
- What exactly is Shadow IT in 2019?
- When does it make sense to let Shadow IT do its thing?
- What are some of the risks of Shadow IT?
- What are the implications for a practitioner? For a leader?
- What does the use of Shadow IT imply for the culture of the broader organization?
- Is there a correlation between Shadow IT and business competitiveness?
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