If you’re an IT Consultant or the CIO of a Boston Company we wanted to share this with you.

With the ease and availability of technology, some companies are tempted to bypass IT entirely as a costs savings measure. However, according to James Staten, Vice President, Principal Analyst of Forrester Research, you might want to reconsider.

Forrester says that’s not wise because of cost,security, and privacy concerns. Instead, chief information officers need to become more flexible and say yes more often.

As is well known to IT staff as well as their fellow employees, asking the IT department for help integrating personal devices in the workplace is most often met with a “NO”. Well, it’s time for the NO to become a Yes or at least a Yes, but..

There’s a video article on Bloomberg Businessweek that we thought you should see. Watch the video and you’ll find examples of how businesses can say “YES” and will prosper because of it. It’s the wave and we need to get on it or we’ll be left out to sea (so to speak). Check it out and let us know what you think.

We found this video article interesting and thought you might as well. To see the video, just click here.