I know, it sounds like the name of an oldschool rock band, but it’s not. It’s actually going to be one of themost pressing issues for IT in 2008. With millions beginning to enterthe workforce from Generation Y, CIOs are scrambling to understand andaddress perhaps their greatest risk ever.
In 2007 IT is just beginning to get its hands around the concept ofIT risk management and figuring out how to translate that forexecutives and the board. Now they’re confronted by the millennialworker, which is almost cause to rethink IT risk management all overagain. Trying to implement IT risk management policies with a"Millennial" workforce—one with members who have been labeled as "risktakers"—is very problematic. In general most "Millennials" tend tobelieve in a "no-walls" approach when it comes to sharing information.Why shouldn’t all information be shared? Their strength is digitalsophistication; some would even claim that the true concept ofinformation technology...
