Archive for July, 2007
The next frontier in IT Strategy: A McKinsey Survey
No commentsValuable survey by McKinsey titled “The next frontier in IT Strategy” Senior IT executives now believe that they are successfully aligning IT strategy with the needs of businesses they serve. Finally, IT executives are collaborating with business to add value. It’s a good sign that IT department is moving away from tactical IT infrastructure management. Though IT infrastructure is important, from business organization perspective IT department becomes…
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IT Does Matter
1 comment so farCIO Insight article revisits Nicholas Carr controversial 2003 HBR article “IT Doesn’t Matter”. Well, the gist of the article: Carr’s compares IT to Electricity. Initially Electricity was used by some companies to create a sustainable competitive advantage. But soon all the competitors started using electricity and the use of electricity stopped being an enabler of competitive advantage. Thus, electricity turned out from being a cutting edge technology to that of …
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