If anyone at ZD cared to look, Apple has had Enterprise resources on their website for a long time.
As always, the real Enterprise problem (and I fought the battle from the inside for years) was that anything that threatened the status quo (control!) by the group called Information Systems or Information Technology or any similar names, would be resisted, sabotaged, trivialized--whatever it took to keep the current top manager of that group in place and growing his team, for his own financial benefit. Over the years, many more cost-cutting and "speed up" initiatives came from internal user groups, not the IS/IT groups.
A technique that usually worked, at some political risk, was to go up high enough in the hierarchy to remind IS/IT just who their clients were--and who actually generated the revenue that paid their salaries. Once it was mainframes, then minicomputers, then Windows desktops. Now people that see real tactical and strategic benefits, at lower costs, with smartphones, the iPad, etc., are facing the same embedded attitudes.
This is the real test of a top executive--can she or he encourage bottom-up thinking that can change how the company gets things done, to better serve their customers and build the business and profits.
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