Nicholas Carr It Doesn T Matter Summary
Assignment #1: "IT Doesn't Matter" by Nicholas Carr
Nicholas Carr wrote an article entitled IT Doesn't Matter at first; it reads controversial and needs full of interpretations for the readers. As we read the entire story, the author might have a different interpretation of IT and probably points out that we really don't need IT too much, the companies should not spend too much on IT and not more for strategic advantage.
Carr said that having IT may delivered the business at risk; instead of investing the money more on major expenses , IT just add more to the business especially when there is a technical and security problems. He also writes that IT cannot be said as one of the major need in business process, it is just an additional to …show more content…
As one of the chief executive of Intel Corporation before, Craig Barrett said, "As a nation and as a company, you either upgrade your IT infrastructure or you won't be competitive.", it only points out that IT has a big impact in a company that makes you competitive if you adapt it or will be left behind either. Although you have the same process and business to others, the edge will be 'how you did it', the advantages and the efficiency is really matters, this is what technology offers. The business can gain an edge against others by doing something they can’t; IT infrastructures are what really need.
Carr proposes three new rules for IT management ‘for the future’ as I quoted; first is to ‘Spend Less’; he stated that as the commoditization of IT continues, the penalties for wasteful spending will only grow larger. Although it is hard to achieve a competitive advantage, but for me in a business there is something that you need to take the risk, that’s what the business really is; then Carr focuses only on the cost disadvantage of engaging to
Nicholas Carr wrote an article entitled IT Doesn't Matter at first; it reads controversial and needs full of interpretations for the readers. As we read the entire story, the author might have a different interpretation of IT and probably points out that we really don't need IT too much, the companies should not spend too much on IT and not more for strategic advantage.
Carr said that having IT may delivered the business at risk; instead of investing the money more on major expenses , IT just add more to the business especially when there is a technical and security problems. He also writes that IT cannot be said as one of the major need in business process, it is just an additional to …show more content…
As one of the chief executive of Intel Corporation before, Craig Barrett said, "As a nation and as a company, you either upgrade your IT infrastructure or you won't be competitive.", it only points out that IT has a big impact in a company that makes you competitive if you adapt it or will be left behind either. Although you have the same process and business to others, the edge will be 'how you did it', the advantages and the efficiency is really matters, this is what technology offers. The business can gain an edge against others by doing something they can’t; IT infrastructures are what really need.
Carr proposes three new rules for IT management ‘for the future’ as I quoted; first is to ‘Spend Less’; he stated that as the commoditization of IT continues, the penalties for wasteful spending will only grow larger. Although it is hard to achieve a competitive advantage, but for me in a business there is something that you need to take the risk, that’s what the business really is; then Carr focuses only on the cost disadvantage of engaging to