Gartner came up with the term “Bimodal IT” to describe the scenario in which the CIO and other tech executives handle the integration of an existing, predictable, tech infrastructure and streams of work with one of a more exploratory, emergent stream of contemporary software, trends and devices, commonly characterised as bring-your-own (BYOD/BYOA etc).
Close to a decade since the term “shadow IT” was first used, its “dangers” are still being touted by some IT professionals, but it’s a reactionary stance whose time has surely passed.