The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google Nicholas Carr January 7 The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google Nicholas Carr ...
This article reviews a thesis by Nicholas Carr, wherein IT has reached the end of its build-out phase and is now a commodity is right in important ways. This article points out Carr is also missing a key point: The convergence of computer technology, business process management BPM, and MDA...
In May 2003 an article by the former editor of the Harvard Business Review HBR, Nicholas Carr, in HBR, suggested that IT was no longer a strategic concern for management and that investments in IT should, in future, be restricted to the routine. Carr's thesis has been widely debated, not...
As a veteran business reporter who has seen my share of spectacular successes and failures, I've suspected that something was not quite what it seemed at Google. Whenever an executive proclaims that he or she has fundamentally transformed business and created a new "paradigm," it's time to be skeptical....
Business will soon change in ways as electrifying as electrification itself. So argues Nicholas Carr in his new book "The Big Switch." Carr, who rose to prominence on the strength of his 2003 article "IT Doesn't Matter" later a book of the same name,...
Fast Company for which I sometimes write has a look at five business books just out. Smart Books 2008 looks at The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google Nicholas Carr, Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What's Obvious but Not Easy David Maister, The Breakthrough Company: How...
Gregory Ness submits: Google GOOG is one of the few dotcom-era companies that truly exceeded investor expectations. Imagine anyone so brazen a couple decades ago to think that an advertising/directory company could grow to threaten the world’s global tech giants. Yet here we are today with Google stealing the tech thunder with...
The Find: For Google's 10th birthday a little present: a clear and concise explanation of the company's business model. (Hint: it's more about compliments and less about ruling the world.) The Source: Rough Type, the blog of Nicholas Carr. The Takeaway: Nicolas...
When Nicholas Carr argued famously and contentiously a few years back that IT doesn't matter anymore, his more subtle point was missed. Having effective IT just means you are part of the competitive status quo. Most of your competitors will have similar technology to yours, so...
It's not just you. It really is getting harder to outpace the other guys. Since the mid-1990s, competition in the U.S. economy has accelerated to unprecedented levels. The engine behind this hypercompetition: IT. Thanks to powerful...
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