Corporate IT done 'lite': open source, Web 2.0 gain appeal as budgets shrink
"CIOs as a group are very risk-averse. As a result, we don't tend to embrace the new technologies as much as we should," Singh says. "But the economy has forced people to take a more serious look at this. I think it's good. This is a paradigm shift that will be around long after the economy recovers."
"Historically, it has all been one-way communication. But now, engineering and product development groups are using blogs to share ideas, and what it's doing is driving product innovation."
Web strategy is about to become a serious 'must have' for enterprise IT.
Cost pressures are opening the door for web based solutions, but collaboration and innovation gains mean that this trend will stick, and become an important differentiator for business, for a long time to come.
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