Are you a citizen developer?

Hello,

My name is Jeff Borisch and I am a researcher with a consultancy called SonicRim [http://sonicrim.com]. We do research into new and emerging technologies and markets, and we help clients such as Microsoft, Motorola, Target, Frito-Lay, Honda and others improve their products and generate new directions for innovation.

We are trying to find people who fit the profile of "Citizen Developer". A Gartner report from 2009 suggests that “By 2014, citizen developers – users operating outside of the scope of enterprise IT and its governance who create new business applications for consumption by others either from scratch or by composition – will build at least 25 percent of new business applications”. [http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1212813].

We have a short survey available but before I post the longer description of what we are doing and a link to the survey, I wanted to check with the community. I have gotten a positive response so far over on an Excel support forum.

We are NOT trying to:

1. sell anything

2. collect personal information. (only if you want to participate further will we need to know who you are)

Please reply if this sounds interesting, and you believe it would be ok to post more info to this group.

Thank you for your time.

Jeff Borisch