With all the great minds in corporate IT departments, you would think that innovation would be driven from the business world to consumers, but that's hardly the case. Most people can do a lot more on their laptop in front of their 3D television screen than they can in their cubicle with the company PC.

In his blog on the CIO Dashboard, Chris Curran asks why this is so and, fortunately for us, answers the question himself, along with his co-worker Henry Hwangbo.

Curran cites five reasons: IT has the wrong skill sets; cloud services are perceived as insecure; open source is mistrusted; governance is too restrictive; and prototypes are underappreciated.

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