{"id":1494,"date":"2015-05-04T18:17:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T18:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2019-02-22T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T15:41:00","slug":"shadow-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/shadow-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I run a <a href=\"https:\/\/leanpub.com\/tothepoint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lean inception<\/a> to bring a software solution from the shadow to the authorized IT department ecosystem. Only then I realized the power and importance of shadow IT for large organizations.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time shadow IT can be viewed as an outlier and unreliable solution, it embraces the innovative and can-do attitude of smaller business units. It is not about being good or bad, official or non-official. It is a common fact. If you are on a large organization, take a better look at the shadows. Either bring a flashlight or adjust your eyes to see in the dark. You will then recognize innovative ideas and solutions already near the business.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1497\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/05\/flashlight004zk4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1497\" alt=\"flashlight004zk4\" src=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/05\/flashlight004zk4-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/05\/flashlight004zk4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/05\/flashlight004zk4.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shadow IT; what is really going on?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow_IT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>&#8220;Shadow IT<\/b>\u00a0is a term often used to describe\u00a0<a title=\"Information technology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Information_technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IT systems<\/a>\u00a0and IT solutions built and used inside organizations without explicit organizational approval. It is also used, along with the term &#8220;Stealth IT,&#8221; to describe solutions specified and deployed by departments other than the IT department.<\/p>\n<p>Shadow IT is considered by many an important source for\u00a0<a title=\"Innovation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Innovation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">innovation<\/a>\u00a0and such systems may turn out to be\u00a0<a title=\"Prototype\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prototype\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">prototypes<\/a>\u00a0for future approved IT solutions. On the other hand, shadow IT solutions are not often in line with the organization&#8217;s requirements for control, documentation, security, reliability, etc., although these issues can apply equally to authorized IT solutions.&#8221; (source: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow_IT )<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I run a lean inception to bring a software solution from the shadow to the authorized IT department ecosystem. Only then I realized the power and importance of shadow IT for large organizations. At the same time shadow IT can be viewed as an outlier and unreliable solution, it embraces the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1941],"tags":[694],"inception_activities":[],"colaboradores":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procuts-management","tag-organizational-transformation-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"inception_activities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inception_activities?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"colaboradores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colaboradores?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}