Episode 3: The Shadow IT Lightsaber is getting stronger

Mike Bestvina
Enterprise Should Suck Less
1 min readFeb 1, 2016

M&A ask “Is there an impassable wall between Traditional IT and shadow IT”? “”Will it break down”? Small teams need quick productivity and response boosts in 5 min and they get it with say, Trello. Traditional IT takes 5 days to provision “Sharepoint”. Executives push the iPhone, developers pushed Slack, and everybody pushed Dropbox into enterprise. This light sabre of shadow IT is challenging the control of IT Police. Mike smells a product opportunity.

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