Consumerization

A Provost watching students use technology on a university campus today recognizes consumerization rules technology adoption. If you doubt this I suggest you count the number of smartphones, tablets, and laptops owned by your students. Students are impressed when the college enterprise systems are friendly with mobile devices and frustrated when the library, class registration, email, and learning management systems only work with computers. Students' purchase of mobile devices have relieved the college of the need to invest in student computers. The result is a CAO should consider reinvesting in mobile-enabling enterprise applications. The forward thinking IT departments have developed a roadmap for the campus and have started the necessary changes. The New York Times had a story on this topic titled "More Offices Let Workers Choose Their Own Devices" in the September 23, 2011 edition.