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Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet

Harvard Business Review

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget.

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A Kodak Moment to Reconsider the Value of IT

Harvard Business Review

The CIO was Katherine Hudson, who is considered by many people to have launched the modern IT outsourcing movement while at Kodak. It's conceivable that IT's views could have saved the company, had the culture been different and had executive management been willing to listen. Today corporations are said to be more enlightened.

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