Ali, Saqib wrote: > In his recent Blog post, professor Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business > School, discusses how IT has been viewed by Business Leaders in the > past and how the perception is changing with the advent of Web 2.0: > http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/is_general_management_being_transformed_by_it/ > > Excerpt of Blog post: > ... > -Overhyped. One of the most common complaints I hear is that IT > proponents have an enduring tendency to overpromise and underdeliver. > After managers feel like they've been sold a technology bill of goods > a few times, they stop listening to the sales pitch. > > However the landscape is changing with Enterprise 2.0 enabled > applications, as these are intended towards organizational level > rather then single task or process. > That's pretty ironic, considering that Web 2.0 is the most over-hyped thing to come along since Web 1.0 :-)
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