Digital Natives Take Charge of Information Overload with User-Friendly Tools

It’s all about instant gratification sometimes.  It’s about getting what we want, how we want it and having the luxury of getting it as quickly as we can.  These days we can order and personalize almost anything we want to meet our wants and desires.  From super-sizing your fast food order to choosing and personalizing the gadgets you use on you iGoogle homepage, you can always “have it your way”.  And that trend is making its way into the workplace for sure. 

Many of us have had the luxury of evolving in our careers alongside the evolution of the internet and Web 2.0 technologies.  We’ve embraced instant messaging and social networking in both our personal and professional lives but, wait a minute, those same tools that we can use so aptly in our personal lives just don’t meet our expectations at work – we need more robust, more powerful tools that offer the same flexibility and personalization we experience in our personal tech-savvy lives.  The collective “we” I refer to however is not the typical IT professional, the collective “we” is not necessarily the CIO or Director of IT – it may be the person sitting in the cubicle next to you, it may be the Sales Coordinator who’s trying to figure out the regional “hot spots” that he needs to focus on; it may be the Clinical Research Microbiologist seeking the latest FDA approvals; it may be the Portfolio Manager looking for proprietary research to support her next trading decision…  These tools that we’ve all grown accustom to in our personal lives are driving us to find the better, more interactive solutions for sifting through the hundreds of thousands of data points available on the internet and throughout the enterprise – and then mashup comparative data points to make better sense out of them. 

The article “‘Digital Natives’ Take Charge; Get Ready for the Democratization of IT” by Bruce Molloy, CEO of Connotate, was just published in NJTech News and it’s certainly worth the read.  Addressing the emergence of “Digital Natives”and the challenges facing every organization today, you get a good feel for how user driven innovation can shape the enterprise.  And better yet, you hear how one company offers an “intelligent agent” solution that turns the flood of information out there into actionable intelligence.     

Read the entire “ ‘Digital Natives’ Take Charge; Get Ready for the Democratization of IT” article. 

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