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IT doesn't matter

Carr, Nicholas G

Harvard business review, 2003-05, Vol.81 (5), p.41-49

United States: Harvard Business Review

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  • Título:
    IT doesn't matter
  • Autor: Carr, Nicholas G
  • Assuntos: Business organization and administration ; Business planning ; Capital Financing ; Capital investments ; Competitive advantage ; Computers ; Computers - economics ; Decision Making ; Economic Competition ; Health administration ; Information Systems - economics ; Information Systems - instrumentation ; Information Systems - organization & administration ; Information technology ; Investments ; Management ; Software - economics ; Strategic management ; United States
  • É parte de: Harvard business review, 2003-05, Vol.81 (5), p.41-49
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  • Descrição: As information technology has grown in power and ubiquity, companies have come to view it as ever more critical to their success; their heavy spending on hardware and software clearly reflects that assumption. Chief executives routinely talk about information technology's strategic value, about how they can use IT to gain a competitive edge. But scarcity, not ubiquity, makes a business resource truly strategic--and allows companies to use it for a sustained competitive advantage. You only gain an edge over rivals by doing something that they can't. IT is the latest in a series of broadly adopted technologies--think of the railroad or the electric generator--that have reshaped industry over the past two centuries. For a brief time, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, these technologies created powerful opportunities for forward-looking companies. But as their availability increased and their costs decreased, they became commodity inputs. From a strategic standpoint, they became invisible; they no longer mattered. that's exactly what's happening to IT, and the implications are profound. In this article, HBR's editor-at-large Nicholas Carr suggests that IT management should, frankly, become boring. It should focus on reducing risks, not increasing opportunities. For example, companies need to pay more attention to ensuring network and data security. Even more important, they need to manage IT costs more aggressively. IT may not help you gain a strategic advantage, but it could easily put you at a cost disadvantage. If, like many executives, you've begun to take a more defensive posture toward IT, spending more frugally and thinking more pragmatically, you're already on the right course. The challenge will be to maintain that discipline when the business cycle strengthens.
  • Editor: United States: Harvard Business Review
  • Idioma: Inglês
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