Wired 12.05: Want to Piss Off a CEO?
Nicholas Carr, who wrote the much discussed "It Doesn't Matter" last year for the Harvard Business Review, is back again trying to further explain his thesis,
The IT industry is looking more and more like a traditional, mature manufacturing business. Plagued by undifferentiated products, global overcapacity, and falling prices, hardware and software companies are consolidating, shifting production offshore, and making money on maintenance and other fee-based services. They're competing on cost rather than innovation and features.
It's a good read for getting a well-rounded picture of how the focus in business-related hardware and software is shifting from the development of these tools (less innovation and features) to the alignment of the business goals with the IT tools to make those goals a reality (Enterprise Architecture, both the process and artifacts).
To me, IT is so much more than the products we buy and even the protocols and standards developed by some very intelligent people. IT is the actual process of putting the added-value technology in the right place at the right time. It's the implementation of these things and, more importantly, the business and technology savvy people in an organization that put these commodity software and hardware pieces togther to meet the expectations of the folks putting together the business plans and strategy.
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