1. ABOUT YOU AND YOUR ORGANISATION

To begin with, we need to know a bit about you so we can make sense of the survey results...

1.1 In general terms, which of the following would you regard yourself as?

1.2 How many people do you have reporting to you?

1.3 How old are you?

1.4 How many people work in your organisation?

1.5 Does your organisation sell IT products or services?

1.6 Which of the following best describes your organisation's core business?

2. YOUR OWN USE OF TECHNOLOGY

We would like to start out by exploring your own use of technology, systems and services at work, so the following questions relate to your activity as an individual.

2.1 Does your company provide you with any of the following on a formally supported basis? (Please tick all that apply)

2.2 Generally speaking, how well are your individual needs being met at the moment in relation to the following by the equipment, software and services provided to you by your employer?

2.3 Are there any particular shortfalls in capability that significantly constrain your ability to do your job effectively, or would constrain you if you had to live with them?

2.4 When a new or exceptional IT or communications related need arises in relation to your personal requirements, are you able to take advantage of any of the following mechanisms in order to meet it? (Let's assume the need is legitimate from a business perspective)

2.5 How much do you use personally owned equipment or personal accounts of the following kinds for work purposes, and what's your employer's attitude to this?

2.6 Which specific public social networks or other personal internet services do you use significantly for work purposes?

2.7 How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

Beyond simple preference setting, many employees have access to development capability embedded in end user tools and environments. Today it’s not just Excel macros, Microsoft Access and desktop BI tools, but the construction of team spaces, advanced reports, mash-ups and even full-blown data-driven applications in SharePoint and other portal environments. Hosted cloud services also often offer the capability to build extensions to SaaS applications, advanced reports, and so on. With this in mind...

2.8 Do you ever develop your own 'DIY' solutions independently of the formal IT delivery process?

2.9 If yes, can you give us some examples?

2.10 How would you sum up the company's view of this kind of DIY development activity?

3. ACTIVITY ACROSS THE WORKFORCE AS A WHOLE

We'd now like to move on and consider how much some of the things we have been discussing in relation to you personally apply across your organisation's workforce as a whole.

3.1 To what degree does your company provide the following to employees on a formally supported basis?

3.2 How much does your organisation use the following solutions?

3.3 Which of these do you see as being particularly important or strategic for the future? (Please tick all that apply)

3.4 Generally speaking, how well would you say the needs of the workforce are being met at the moment in relation to the following?

3.5 How much are personally owned devices or personal accounts of the following kinds used across the workforce for work purposes, either officially or unofficially?

3.6 In your experience, which types of employee are most likely to want to use their own equipment or personal internet accounts for work purposes?

3.7 How much do you see 'DIY' IT solution development taking place across the workforce? (e.g. users taking advantage of desktop tools, portals and mash-ups, etc to solve their own requirements)

3.8 Which types of employee are most likely to be doing DIY development?

4. EVOLVING DEMANDS AND MEETING FUTURE REQUIREMENTS

In this last section, we'd like to spend a few minutes looking at how demands are changing, and steps that are relevant to deal with evolving needs.

4.1 How do you see demand changing in relation to the following? (regardless of how well it is currently being met)

4.2 With these dynamics in mind, what level of investment in terms of money, time and effort do you anticipate being made in relation to the following in 2013?

4.3 On the specific point of Enterprise Social Media, what adoption strategy are you favouring or are you likely to favour?

4.4 How would you rate the benefits of greater user empowerment and freedom in general in relation to the following?

4.5 Have we missed any potential benefits or is there anything upon which you would like to elaborate?

4.6 How would you characterise the risks of greater user empowerment and freedom in relation to the following, and how easy or hard are those risks to manage?

4.7 Have we missed any potential risks or is there anything else upon which you would like to elaborate?

4.8 How much do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

4.9 Any final thoughts or comments on user freedom and empowerment in general

That's it - Thank you very much for you time.