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Yes, Managing IT Is Your Job

Harvard Business Review

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Generating Top-Line Growth. Additional challenges come from "localization" requirements in many countries.