Secure Enterprise 2.0 Blog

Dear Friends,

With the start of the new year, and with many good things upon us here at WorkLight, I am excited to announce our new blog - “Secure Enterprise 2.0″

We will focus on issues related to the consumerization of the workplace, security issues surrounding Web 2.0 solutions, market trends, industry buzz and any other useful tidbit of information that my colleagues and I feel like ranting about.

Let me start off by explaining what I see in the shift towards “consumerization of IT”:

Gartner calls this an irreversible mega-trend, and warns that any company that wants to stay in the game should accept the technology and culture. But what does it mean for your company?

It means that your employees are interfacing both internally and externally using tools and technologies that are by now commonplace at home - social networks like Facebook; collaborative platforms such as wikis; soapbox tools like blogs to voice opinions; social bookmarking to share news and expertise with others; and many more.

It means that when you are talking about corporate procedures and top-down guidelines, your team has already customized the top clients profiles, launched a new work group to brainstorm on the next product upgrade, facilitated access to your best-selling products via a snazzy customer-facing web 2.0 application, and pretty much left you in the dark.

Bottom line, it means that in order for you to lead your company and thrive on their expertise, you must accept employee-driven innovation and nurture it to meet your business goals, in a safe and secure environment.

And to top it off - here is a fun share-slide on Charlotte’s Enterprise 2.0 experience.

Enjoy!

Shahar

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