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Bridging the Gap Between IT and Your Business

Harvard Business Review

From where we sit, both sides have legitimate beefs: IT complains that, despite the increasing penetration of technology into every nook and cranny of the business , it doesn’t have a seat at the table and no one understands how difficult their jobs are given the constraints under which they operate. It is time to put a stop to this.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

Rather than serving as an adjunct to the core business, or merely a cost center, IT is becoming intrinsic to the very products and services that every company offers. Why is this? Mainly because, as Marc Andreessen puts it, " software is eating the world." As software eats the world, information is eating the enterprise.