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9781591394440

Does It Matter?

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  • ISBN13:

    9781591394440

  • ISBN10:

    1591394449

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-05-01
  • Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr

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Summary

A frame-changing statement on one of the most important business phenomena ofour time, "Does IT Matter?" marks a crucial milepost in the debate about IT'sfuture.

Author Biography

An acclaimed business writer and thinker, Nicholas G. Carr is a former Executive Editor of the Harvard Business Review

Table of Contents

Preface: The Great Debate ix
1 Technological Transformations 1(12)
The Rise of a New Business Infrastructure
2 Laying Tracks 13(18)
The Nature and Evolution of Infrastructural Technologies
3 An Almost Perfect Commodity 31(32)
The Fate of Computer Hardware and Software
4 Vanishing Advantage 63(24)
Information Technology's Changing Role in Business
5 The Universal Strategy Solvent 87(20)
The IT Infrastructure's Corrosive Effect on Traditional Advantages
6 Managing the Money Pit 107(30)
New Imperatives for IT Investment and Management
7 A Dream of Wonderful Machines 137(12)
The Reading, and Misreading, of Technological Change
Notes 149(18)
Bibliography 167(14)
Index 181(12)
About the Author 193

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