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Business users are buying and building their own tech capabilities in order to stay competitive, but it’s stressing IT teams. A regional look.

A new study from the Economist Intelligence Unit shows tech-savvy business users increasingly leverage technology to innovate.

New research from the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that technology decisions are moving to the business users.

If you’re going to put a programmer in charge of thwarting an alien invasion, it shouldn’t surprise you when he wants to use a virus. What should surprise you is how — given his near-complete absence of knowledge about alien technology… Good thing our I.T. pros know how to plug a plot hole!

If you were going to send a machine back in time to kill someone, you might want to figure out a way for it to, say, take a gun, or prevent someone from going back further, or even teach it English... Can’t be bothered? Chuck and Ravi are here to save the day! (Until the next improbable sequel).

Remember when you were a kid, and played make-believe with whatever junk you could find around the house? Now pretend you were the preeminent film director of this generation, and ran with this idea as a solution for an interplanetary phone call. Listen as our I.T. pros give an Oscar-worthy tech fix performance.

Next time you feel the need to express your individuality at work or lose a few friends on social media with your political viewpoints, remember to give a nod of thanks. Because you could always be trapped in a heavy-handed sci-fi metaphor, like the one our heroes must navigate to save a certain track-suited captain.

Before you complain how that movie was all special effects and no story, remember the time that it actually was. Like, completely fever-dream bananas — full of inexplicable neon and vindictive computers with a gladiator fetish. Come follow Chuck and Ravi through this surreal CGI journey with a wild 80’s twist!

Just to be totally clear, you can hurl a ship through hyperspace (with a mumbling carpet as a copilot), but you can’t forward an email attachment? Listen as our I.T. pros devise a workaround for the most famous plot hole in sci-fi history, and help a certain intergalactic family work through their anger issues.

Never mind that most people don’t even agree with their GPS, this guy was cool going 365 million miles into space with a narcissistic cyclops AI… Come follow Chuck and Ravi on a cleanup mission that sidesteps the laws of robotics, and rescues a captain with some serious Stockholm syndrome.

Ever wonder how they hooked up the Matrix human energy pods — considering you’d probably get more juice out of a hearing aid battery? Listen as our heroes defy this cinematic sleight of hand, and help the humans and machines finally play nice. And also put a lot of folks out of work.

Follow our IT pros through space and time as they solve tech crises in classic sci-fi films.

The Economist Intelligence Unit - The Cyber-Chasm Between the C-Suite and IT by VMware Podcasts