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Staying Ahead of the Wave of Irrelevance

Nicholas Carr wrote in the May 2003 edition of the Harvard Business Review that " IT doesn't matter ."  (The full text of the article was provided online in 2007 by Mr. Carr if you wish to read it in its entirety.)  Recently, this article was resurrected for a discussion on LinkedIn after which input was solicited by the group of CIOs and senior IT people that were members of this particular group. Predictably, everyone said " yes, IT does matter! "  Well, almost everyone did: I was the lone contrarian, which is humorous considering that IT paid my bills for 18 years, and now that I'm involved with sales to IT groups it continues to do so albeit in a more circuitous fashion.  Am I biting the hand that feeds me? As a disclaimer, I had not read the article before this question was asked of the group nor had I read (although my management has been strongly hinting for over a year that I should) his book The Big Switch (link to Amazon).  You would think,