Sunday, October 15, 2006

Leader: RIP the IT department? - Time to embrace DIY tech / Silicon, 12 Oct 2006

http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39163157,00.htm
"Anyone who is still in doubt about the impact of the iPod and Google generation on the future of the corporate IT department need only look at the example currently being set by oil giant BP.
BP is pioneering an innovative 'do-it-yourself' IT support scheme for some of its employees - giving them $1,000 to buy their own kit and take care of their own IT support. That scheme is being led by Jim Ginsburgh, VP of enterprise architecture at BP, who said the driver for it came when he noticed some people were having a better computing experience in the home than in the office."