IT Doesnt Matter

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IT Doesnt Matter

• Nick Carr

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Questions

• What does Carr mean when he discusses a vanishing
  advantage? 
• What is the advantage one gains from IT?

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• What does the commoditization of IT mean? 
• What is a commodity? 
• How do you make a product into something that is
  not a commodity? 
• How does this Apply to IT?

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• The examples of railroads and electricity seem to
  be similar to IT are these analogies valid?
• What is different about IT?
• How is IT similar to these examples?

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• What does Carr feel are the new rules for IT?
• Do you think Carrs recommendations are
  strategies that firms should follow?
• Is there are role for IT in innovation and
  striving for excellence?

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Generating premium returns on your IT investments

• What is IT Savy?
• IT savvy refers to the planned, ongoing use of a
  set of interlocking business practices and
  competencies that collectively derive superior
  value from IT investments

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Generating premium returns on your IT investments

• How does a firm become IT Savy?
• What is helpful about viewing IT through the
  portfolio lens?
• Successful IT portfolio techniques change the
  conversation from technical to strategic
  considerations by applying a commercial lens to
  IT investments
• Why is this important?
• the result is an allocation of IT assets that is
  appropriate for the companys circumstances.

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Generating premium returns on your IT investments

• What are the elements of this portfolio?
• Infrastructure
• Transactional
• Informational
• Strategic

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Generating premium returns on your IT investments

• What are the hallmarks of the IT-savvy company?

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Generating premium returns on your IT investments

• How do firms match IT-savvy practices and
  competencies with the IT portfolio?

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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
difference
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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
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• What has changed?
• Who has been changed?
• What caused the change?

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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
difference

• What has changed? A new dynamic
• Who has been changed? Everyone
• What caused the change? Not just IT, but processes

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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
difference

• The indicators in the research
• Concentration
• Turbulence
• Performance spread

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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
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• So, when did all this happen?
• What is the underlying cause?
• How do they make it work?

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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
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• So, when did all this happen? Mid 90s
• What is the underlying cause? IT/productivity
• How do they make it work?Embedded in IT
  Propagation

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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
difference

• How do we see this evolve?
• Who is responsible for making it all work?
• What should the mantra be?

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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
difference

• How do we see this evolve?Its a self
  propagating cycle
• Who is responsible for making it all
  work?Managers, of course!
• What should the mantra be?Deploy, innovate,
  propagate

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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
difference

• Where will the next brilliant idea come from?
• So, is management out of the picture?

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Investing in the IT that makes a competitive
difference

• Where will the next brilliant idea come from?The
  masses
• So, is management out of the picture?Of course
  not identify and propagate