{"id":49,"date":"2008-01-10T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/10\/more-from-nicholas-carr\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T10:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T17:53:00","slug":"more-from-nicholas-carr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/10\/more-from-nicholas-carr\/","title":{"rendered":"More from Nicholas Carr"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wired Magazine did a<\/span> Q&A with Nicholas Carr last month<\/span><\/a> that some of you might find interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many of Mr. Carr’s points are valid – however I still take issue with his primary point – that IT does not matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

I also wanted to clarify something from my previous post…<\/span><\/p>\n

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I believe that companies will always need IT staff… but<\/span> the value that IT staff delivers will always come from the composite technology delivered in support of a business plan which differentiates it from it’s competitors<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When IT focuses on delivering that value (and not on owning “technology” for the sake of owning it) IT does matter and adds value at the bottom line<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Mr. Carr emphasizes the source of the technology instead of the point at which the technology is transformed from a commodity into something of value. The point at which the composite technology contributes to the competitive advantage of a company by enabling differentiating business plans<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n


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Will we source some the the component technologies from the “cloud”, yes. Will we simply buy end to end technology supporting the business from a third party, no. Simply because there is value in differentiation and to the extent that we need specific technology in composite to deliver on that differentiation we’ll pay a premium for it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wired Magazine did a Q&A with Nicholas Carr last month that some of you might find interesting. Many of Mr. Carr’s points are valid – however I still take issue with his primary point – that IT does not matter. I also wanted to clarify something from my previous post…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}