Nicholas G. Carr

Does It Matter?: Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a bold and controversial manifesto on where information technology is headed, how its role in business strategy will dramatically change, and what this all means for business managers and IT suppliers. "Does IT Matter" provides the first cogent explanation of IT's dramatically changing business role, its levelling influence on competition, and the practical implications for business managers and IT suppliers. A convincing manifesto on one of the most important business phenomena of our time, "Does IT Matter?" will play a central role in our ongoing debate about the future of IT.

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Over the last decade, and even since the bursting of the technology bubble, pundits, consultants, and thought leaders have argued that information technology provides the edge necessary for business success. IT expert Nicholas G. Carr offers a radically different view in this eloquent and explosive book. As IT's power and presence have grown, he argues, its strategic relevance has actually decreased. IT has been transformed from a source of advantage into a commoditized "cost of doing business"--with huge implications for business management. Expanding on Carr's seminal Harvard Business Review article that generated a storm of controversy, Does IT Matter? provides a truly compelling--and unsettling--account of IT's changing business role and its leveling influence on competition. Through astute analysis of historical and contemporary examples, Carr shows that the evolution of IT closely parallels that of earlier technologies such as railroads and electric power. He goes on to lay out a new agenda for IT management, stressing cost control and risk management over innovation and investment. And he examines the broader implications for business strategy and organization as well as for the technology industry. A frame-changing statement on one of the most important business phenomena of our time, Does IT Matter? marks a crucial milepost in the debate about IT's future. An acclaimed business writer and thinker, Nicholas G. Carr is a former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard Business School Press / McGraw-Hill Professional
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 144mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781591394440
• ISBN-10: 1591394449
• Artikelnr.: 12712357

Autorenporträt

Nicholas G. Carr is a former Executive Editor and Editor-at-Large for Harvard Business Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
The Great Debate ONE
Technological Transformations
The Rise of a New Business Infrastructure TWO
Laying Tracks
The Nature and Evolution of Infrastructural Technologies THREE
An Almost Perfect Commodity
The Fate of Computer Hardware and Software FOUR
Vanishing Advantage
Information Technology's Changing Role in Business FIVE
The Universal Strategy Solvent
The IT Infrastructure's Corrosive Effect on Traditional Advantages SIX
Managing the Money Pit
New Imperatives for IT Investment and Management SEVEN
A Dream of Wonderful Machines
The Reading, and Misreading, of Technological Change Notes and Bibliography Index