IT Doesn’t Matter D by Nicholas G. Carr With Letters to the Editor O N O T CO PY Reprint r0305b D O Idalene F Kesner . May 2003 HBR Case Study Leadership Development: Perk or Priority? HBR at Large IT Doesn’t Matter Nicholas G. Carr r0305a r0305b Is Silence Killing Your Company? Global Gamesmanship Leslie Perlow and Stephanie Williams Ian C. MacMillan, Alexander B. van Putten, and Rita Gunther McGrath The High Cost of Accurate Knowledge Kathleen M. Sutcliffe…
IT Doesn’t matter “If a company needs evidence of the kind of money that might be saved, it need only look at Microsoft’s profit margin” Excerpts from a company’s strategy document • ...the company will ensure that it will have at least 2 plug points in each room with AC connection. • The switches will be white in color and will make a ‘click’ sound on pressing • Press to hear the click sound Disclaimer • We all agree to the fact that IT plays a crucial role in running an…
Reflection of “IT Doesn’t Matter” article within Harvard Business Review May 2003 issue Kelley Davies Within the Harvard Business Review’s May 2003 issue, Nicholas Carr wrote an article, “IT Doesn’t Matter” depicting Information Technology’s immense growth and importance for business and economics, but yet concludes IT’s decline and fall in business strategic positioning. In class discussion on this article described this author’s point of view as one-sided that Information Technology’s…
Electricity, the telephone, the steam engine, the telegraph, the railroad and ..IT? In his HBR article, "IT Doesn't Matter," Nicholas Carr has stirred up quite a bit of controversy around IT's role as strategic business differentiator. He examines the evolution of IT and argues that it follows a pattern very similar to that of earlier technologies like railroads and electricity. At the beginning of their evolution, these technologies provided opportunities for competitive advantage. However,…
IS IT MATTER NOW This is information era. The evolution of human society from agricultural society to industrial society, and to today’s information technology society, shows that information technology is playing a more and more important role. People who can access to information the most quickly would be the winners in the market. With the continuous development of consumer demand, and the progress of information technology industry, IT has been widely existed in every corner of the modern commercial…
Julieth Figueredo Final Essay Gay Parenting: What Really Matters Throughout history, Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals (LGB) have not been accepted by the majority of societies, especially by the ones whose strong religious beliefs cannot bear two men or two women as a couple. Homosexuals have always been discriminated against and judged by society. They have been victims of violence and harassment, and their rights have been constantly violated. As a denial to these unceasing mistreatments, homosexuals…
familiar riposte: What about the race factor? Are white Americans really ready to elect a black man as president? It’s a recurrent refrain among Democrats and even some hopeful Republicans. As Andrew Kohut wrote here, “56 percent of Democrats believe that many people will not vote for Mr. Obama because he is black.” With the first ever African-American presidential candidate, race is certainly the great unknown of the 2008 campaign, but there is significant empirical evidence to suggest that Mr…
, published a revolutionary article written by Nicholas Carr entitled “IT doesn't Matter”. This article has created a huge debate within the IT industry, from opponents and proponents the opinions differ considerably. So in order to understand the debate better, we will start in a first part to reflect on the arguments Carr presented to support his thesis, then we will have a closer look on what other scholars think about the article before concluding in the last part by giving our personal opinion…
Do Grades Really Matter? Do Grades Really Matter? Yes grades does matter; if they didn’t we wouldn’t have half the technology we have now. Just look at Bill Gates, in the article it talks about how he dropped out of Harvard University. It doesn’t say he was an average student. It actually states have he sailed through high school with extremely good marks. In the article it says he dropped out of to start a business, it doesn’t state whether he was doing bad in University for all we know he just…
than Code. More than Design. More than Advertising www.logicgateone.com Logicgateone: Blogger’s Grammar Blues What Really Matters To be or not to be -- that remains the question today when it comes to the subject of grammar. No, not the school subject which can be traumatic and nose-bleed-inducing but the subject of applying grammar for blog-writing. And it covers just about all levels since ordinary people write blogs, just as senators (or their writers do) and professional writers do.…