[Shadow IT Research] Shadow IT Evaluation Model

Shadow IT: supplement of "official" IT by several, autonomous developed IT systems, processes and organizational units

Different from EUC (End user computing) - which is initiated and supported by IT department.

Young employees with a strong bond to the usage of IT
Increasing focus on compliance and risk management


=> integrated methodology to handle shadow IT

=> IT asset portfolio (map the technical quality and the business value of IS) could be used as a starting point. I set of criterias are given: 

• A. Relevant
• B. Quality
• C. Size
• Initiative potential
• Parallelism

=> the criterias must be discussed between IT and Business

=> Assess the risk and opportunities of shadow IT have been regards
=> the evaluation model criterias can be develop further into "User-Driven IT"

Comments:

Define Shadow IT: software, hardware, services, processes organizational units
Approach: user-driven
How: provide a evaluation criterias, meeting between IT and Business for discussion

=> good article with ideas of discussion between IT and Business

Bibliography:

Rentrop, Christopher, and Stephan Zimmermann. "Shadow IT evaluation model." Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS), 2012 Federated Conference on. IEEE, 2012.