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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. Obligatory car analogy by ktappe · · Score: 0, Redundant
    (Someone has to mention cars...)

    So Toyota should do away with its R&D division because anything they innovate will simply be copied by Honda, GM, and VW?

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