Barrier to Web 2.0 — IT Departments

jcatcw writes "Wikis, social networks, and other Web 2.0 technologies are finding resistance inside companies from the very people who should be rolling them out: the IT staff. The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) in London had to bypass IT to get Web 2.0 technologies to end users. Both Morgan Stanley and Pfizer are rolling out Web 2.0 projects, but it took some grass roots organizing to get there."

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Re:Possible Explanation

[yoha]

Precisely, IT hates work, whereas the profit side of the business is used to it.

Goes something like this

[darkhitman]

Management: "Hey, programmers and IT people: One of us Management people read this great article about 'Web 2.0' and how it's revolutionizing the business world; so, we want to implement a Wiki, a blog, possibly a user-driven news site, and it should all be done with... ah... *refers to napkin* A-Jax."

IT department: "But... we're a consultancy firm. We have a small client base that would never utilize any of those things, and a lot of them are on slower computers with restrictive security that would make an AJAX interface more cumbersome and generally unwan--"

Management: "STOP STANDING IN THE WAY OF WEB 2.0! YOU CAN'T SEE THE VISION!"



... Actually, that sounds a lot like my last job.