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Is the IT Department Dead?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-explains-the-smell-in-there dept.

alphadogg writes "The IT department is dead, and it is a shift to utility computing that will kill this corporate career path. So predicts Nicholas Carr in his new book launched Monday, "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google." Carr is best known for a provocative Harvard Business Review article entitled "Does IT Matter?" Published in 2003, the article asserted that IT investments didn't provide companies with strategic advantages because when one company adopted a new technology, its competitors did the same."

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  1. Is the IS Department Dead? by RealErmine · · Score: 5, Funny

    Could be. Nobody's moved down there for weeks and the stink is awful.

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    1. Re:Is the IS Department Dead? by BunnyClaws · · Score: 5, Funny

      The smell doesn't mean they are dead. That is a normal smell for I.T. folks. Especially the guys supporting the servers.

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    2. Re:Is the IS Department Dead? by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nobody's moved down there for weeks

      Peeking in on them from time to time simply won't work - long-term monitoring is usually required, as their movement can be so subtle. Stop-motion cameras work well for this. One of the best techniques is to detect their movement indirectly, by periodically checking the amount of junk food packaging in their trash cans throughout a workday.

      Dan East

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    3. Re:Is the IS Department Dead? by TooMuchToDo · · Score: 4, Funny

      Schrodinger's Tech Support?