Rod Dowler

London

Co-founder Zoomf.com

The gist of this article is that flexible working, consumer technologies and a new wave of technophiles are a bit of a threat to IT environments and UK business leaders.

In my view, the reverse is true. Old style IT was so cumbersome and expensive that it virtually paralysed innovation and managers with poor IT skills could not overcome these barriers.

New web-based technologies, open-source software and young technophiles
are empowering organisations to build and change systems quickly and responsively. This gives tremendous competitive advantage to companies prepared to take advantage of these changes