Adam said > Sometimes IT organizations forget that they didn't invent information, > they simply are a means of managing it.
...and sometimes not even managing it. Often enough IT is arguably just a vessel in which corporate information resides and it's a vessel that fights the business tooth and nail every day. It is more of a necessary bur-in-my-saddle than anything remotely approaching a core technology asset that might drive some sort of competitive advantage. I -don't- subscribe to the idea that IT doesn't matter. That prognostication is premature at best. However, if you look at downsizing, outsourcing and offshoring trends and also at the steep decline of "in-house" application development world-wide, then it is pretty easy to agree with a lot of what Nicholas Carr says, even if you don't buy the whole story. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
