We’re seeing the democratization of technology as the power to create is moving out of the hands of the IT organization, said Ronald Schmelzer, manager partner at ZapThink. “If this was 1998, if you wanted to create a website, you’d pretty much need an IT department. Now you can set up a blog in 15 minutes. You’ve got Twitter, you’ve got Youtube — that’s completely flipped the control equation. Now IT has very little control over the creation of content.”

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