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Bridging the Gap Between IT and Your Business

Harvard Business Review

For the past several years we have watched with increasing dismay at the increasing chasm between information technology (IT) groups and their business counterparts. Further, the pace of technological change and the demands to do more with the data grow exponentially and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

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Your Company’s Energy Data Is an Untapped Resource

Harvard Business Review

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? And of course, few such managers have a background in information technology. Information & technology' New Sources of Revenue.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

Carr predicted that an organization''s ability to compete through investing in information technology was about to change dramatically. The IT boom of the 1980s and early ''90s had brought information technology to the corporate masses, unleashing the first full-scale technology revolution in the enterprise.

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IT Has Finally Cracked the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. In too many companies, IT leaders, relegated to their cost centers, are subordinate to other C-level executives. To borrow a computer-science term, the denotational semantics are all wrong.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business Review

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. ” The new way of deploying software, he said, also gives him visibility on where and how it is consumed, providing information about future costs.

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Your Company’s Energy Data Is an Untapped Resource

Harvard Business Review

Who at your company will be put in charge of turning buildings operations from a cost center to a revenue center? And of course, few such managers have a background in information technology. These examples are not hypothetical capabilities; these are now real options for companies. New Sources of Revenue.

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