This document discusses shadow IT and provides recommendations for how enterprise IT can embrace it. It defines shadow IT as solutions developed without enterprise IT oversight and explains why teams turn to it for freedom, ownership, and ego. Trends like externalization, consumerization, and democratization of technology are driving its growth. The document recommends that enterprise IT address barriers preventing shadow IT from adopting standards, extend solutions to shadow IT teams, and merge policies with their environments to bridge the divide between the two.