A recent article about personal IT technology at work of the Economist got me think about how this trend changes workplace innovation (http://www.economist.com/node/21531112). As the article says, people use more and more their personal IT devices for their work. Companies, especially professional service firms, allow access to business applications more and more as the diagram in the article indicates.

How does the trend of using personal devices for work impact workplace innovation? I think it accelerates the speed of workplace innovation because the trend makes it easy to work regardless of locations using their personal computers and mobile devices. In addition, this trend will help lower the boundary between work and life by using same physical tools for work and life.