The document discusses how IT services must transform to keep up with "digital natives" who are accustomed to web 2.0 tools. It argues that IT services should embrace these tools by using them to deliver services collaboratively at scale, rather than seeing them as a threat. IT managers have a role to play by adopting policies that encourage openness and participation in community activities to help transform IT services into "IT services 2.0".
Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services Are Dead – Long Live IT Services 2.0!
1. Digital Natives Run by Digital Immigrants: IT Services Are Dead – Long Live IT Services 2.0! Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, UK [email_address] IWR Information Professional of the Year UKOLN is supported by: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/ucisa-2008/ This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) About This Talk What might the future hold for IT Services in a world in which the ‘digital natives’ are no longer reliant on the services provided by central services? “ IT Services are Dead” it could be argued. But IT Services have transformed themselves in the past, so maybe we should be saying “Long Live IT Services 2.0!” But how should IT Services respond to this transition?