IT organizations are used to coping with waves of technology change – mainframes, minis, PCs, Web, and so on.  But in today’s market, it often feels like the waves are coming in faster and bigger than ever.  They are.  Consumerization, mobility, social networking and the pervasive internet cloud will have effects which exceed those of previous IT eras.  The pace of IT industry change continues to accelerate.

These changes are affecting both the IT organization and the modern workplace in a number of important ways.  Central IT will increasingly need to shift from providing IT services to enabling them.  Firms will need to accept that employees are not just users, but a collective source of value and innovation.  And finally, organizations will strive to increasingly make all manner of invisible information and connections much more visible and actionable.  In this session, Doug and Simon will show how firms and their IT organizations are learning to surf these massive changes to create the IT-driven workplace of the future.