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Barrier to Web 2.0 — IT Departments

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bofh-gone-luddite-or-lazy dept.

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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  1. Re:Spin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why do I never have mod points when I need them... I was thinking similar thoughts...

  2. Re:Possible Explanation by yoha · · Score: 0, Troll

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

  3. Goes something like this by darkhitman · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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  4. Two Words: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Elf

    Bowling

  5. Life at the speed of big and dumb. by Erris · · Score: -1, Troll

    IT departments actually know how complicated, messy, potentially insecure and how awful support of such "projects" are going to be.

    The same people still chasing their tails making Windoze work on hundreds of desktops? No, they would never want anything messy, insecure or awful to support.

    tech-types don't usually give into the hype about things like Web 2.0 that columnists, marketers and your usual assortment of weirdos do.

    Once again, we are talking about the same people who bought into Windoze when there were better alternatives. It's true that bigger companies were slow to move but following fads slowly is not wisdom, it's retardation.

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