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Citizen Developer Movement

Citizen Developer Movement

My Device, Your Rules: Effectively Navigating Legal Risks and Privacy Rules for BYOD Employees


Posted by Kate on 12 Mar 2013 / 0 Comment
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You are invited! To work, that is. Please arrive at 9:00am ready to produce and BYOD. That’s “Bring Your Own Device” for those of you who can hardly hear yourselves think over the noise of the 6 year old tower you currently call your work computer.  Some call it BYOT – Bring Your Own Tech [...]

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The Dangers of the BYOD Trend


Posted by Kate on 07 Feb 2013 / 3 Comments
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Just because something is popular doesn’t make it good. Just look at Justin Bieber, Kim Kardashian, or Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend, or Kim Kardashian’s boyfriend’s soon to be born baby… you get the point. The same is true for the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend that is presently on the rise. There’s tons of buzz [...]

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As Windows 8 Surfaces Will Consumerized IT and the Workplace Finally Unite?


Posted by Jennifer on 23 Aug 2012 / 0 Comment
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For those who are tired of drawing the line between IT used at work and their personal devices, Microsoft 8 may be the solution. Could this new operating system finally unite the world of business and consumerized IT?  This summer the craze over consumer mobile devices has reached an all-time high, as every major contender [...]

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The Impact of Cloud Computing on Custom Application Development


Posted by Zuhair on 23 Jul 2012 / 0 Comment
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Traditionally, custom enterprise-grade application development has been severely limited due to the costs and complications associated with traditional software. Today, however, the landscape of custom application development is radically changing. The recent advancements in cloud computing services has significantly dropped the costs of developing custom applications and has enabled companies to explore a wider range [...]

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Bring Your Own Devices to Work Has a Dual Cost-Impact for Employers


Posted by Jennifer on 19 Jul 2012 / 4 Comments
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Ever since smartphones and laptops became prevalent in the workplace, and employees started bringing these devices with them to work, a paradigm shifted in the workplace. Flexibility in the workplace spurred a practice that, essentially, has been around since technology really started to become mobile and commonplace. However, it wasn’t until recently that the term [...]

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How Gatorade Made a Comeback: An Unexpected Lesson in Listening to the Data


Posted by Jennifer on 21 Jun 2012 / 0 Comment
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In 2008, Gatorade was dying. The multibillion dollar Pepsico brand had begun flat-lining in 2007 and then falling sharply, losing 10% of its market share to Coca-Cola’s Powerade. That’s when Sarah Robb O’Hagan came in. Upon arriving, she started looking into the numbers of who drinks Gatorade and why and found, as Fast Company explains in their [...]

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Feeling Empowered to Create Our Own Business Applications


Posted by Charles on 17 Jan 2012 / 0 Comment
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We keep hearing time and time again that business people believe if they had the skill set, they could build better solutions than what IT is offering them. But, they lack the ability to code, or they don’t have a strong background in architecting data models, so they sit back, sigh, and continue using subpar [...]

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BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology)


Posted by Charles on 28 Dec 2011 / 0 Comment
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I’m too old to know whether people still host BYOB (Bring Your Own Bottle or Beer) parties, but back in the day it was a staple of any college dorm party. Heck, even in the heart of Silicon Valley during the dot-com boom, it was just sort of given that everyone brought their own – [...]

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Treat Us Like Adults: IT and the Consumerization of IT


Posted by Charles on 20 Dec 2011 / 0 Comment
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When it comes to technology, why does IT insist on treating professional business people like children? I realize that’s probably an unfair statement, but I can’t help but think that every time I read a story that talks about the dangers of the Consumerization of IT movement, like this recent one in SC Magazine. Sure, [...]

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Is the United States Lagging Behind in the Citizen Developer Movement?


Posted by Charles on 02 Dec 2011 / 0 Comment
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As reported by CIO Magazine, the US lags behind countries in emerging markets when it comes to embracing the Consumerization of IT trend, according to a survey conducted by the Accenture Institue of High Performance. It’s hard not to overlook the irony in these findings given most of these technologies were developed right here in the good old [...]

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