Industry trends One in five Australian and New Zealand executives are willing to ignore IT department policies and consume unapproved apps in the cloud, according to an IDC report, ‘Testing ANZ Employee Willingness to Bypass IT on the Way to the Cloud’. Workers aged between 31-35 and 4145 were the most likely to ignore IT policies around using public cloud services.
CIOs in Australia and New Zealand consider governance, compliance, regulation and security as the biggest barriers to IT, above lack of IT budget and resources, according to the Gartner Executive Programs 2012 CIO Agenda survey. The report also found that the top three technology priorities for local CIOs are mobile technologies, analytics and business intelligence, and cloud computing, while the top three business priorities are attracting and retaining new customers, increasing enterprise growth and reducing enterprise costs.
The social networking experience has evolved to become an integral component of business culture and workplace strategies, according to a recent IDC report on the adoption of social business tools in Australian organisations. However, the report warned that businesses adopting social business tools must develop a “holistic road map focusing on people, culture and business outcomes”. The report suggests aligning social business initiatives with overarching business strategy is the best way to validate the implementation of social tools.
To truly engage the next generation of workers, organisations must offer applications that are at least as compelling as those they use in their personal lives, said SuccessFactors vice president, Asia Pacific, Murray Sargant, opening the SuccessConnect event in Sydney. “If you want to engage that workforce, they have to want to use all the applications that we have to give them, and they don’t differentiate. So when they come to work, let’s put some products in front of them that absolutely look like the systems that they use when they’re outside of work.”
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