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- Microsoft to Enter SaaS
- The blogosphere is on fire with the anticipated announcement that Microsoft will be entering the Software as a Service SaaS market this or next week. Just how they'll enter the market is still uncertain. My guess is that they'll in part blend SaaS with desktop technology much the way we've...
- Tags: Software, Desktop, Google Inc., Web, Software-as-a-service, Microsoft Corp., Blogosphere, Carr, Software As A Service (SaaS), Data Centers, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- Expanding on Carr's latest anthem: The business PC doesn't matter
- Nick "IT doesn't matter" Carr's latest post on why the business PC doesn't matter (those are my words, his were "Rethinking the business PC") resonated with me on so many levels that it could easily be turned into a manager's handbook on business agility. In my RSS reader (Google...
- Tags: Network, PC, Business PC, Computer, Carr, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Sunday News Watch: GigaOm sues hard drive makers; Scoble drops Twitter; Carr says IT matters; Edelman fakes own blog; O'Reilly 2.0; IBM's 300; 3Com buys Cisco unit; Fiorina coming back?
- Sunday News Watch: GigaOm sues hard drive makers; Scoble drops Twitter; Carr says IT matters; Edelman fakes own blog; O'Reilly 2.0; IBM's 300; 3Com buys Cisco unit; Fiorina coming back?Sorry. Not funny. Not even close.if you can't be funny, stay outta the game.Sorry......I should have posted a warning, a sense...
- Tags: Blogging, News Watch, Cisco Unit, O'Reilly 2.0, hard drive maker, Carr, GigaOm, Twitter, 3Com Corp., hard drive, blog, IBM Corp., information technology, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-01
- Should Google really buy Intuit?
- The very day that Google announced “Google Apps for Your Domain,” last August, I put forth: “Next Google Apps targets: Intuit QuickBooks, MS Money?” Today, Nick Carr says “Google should buy Intuit” Really? On what does Carr base his Googley M & A advice?Carr mentions a low traction,...
- Tags: Intuit Inc., Google Inc., Carr, finance, accounting
- Blog posts 2007-03-16
- Podcast: Is Carr right? Does IT not matter? Gartner attendees respond
- Podcast: Is Carr right? Does IT not matter? Gartner attendees respondThorn in the side?My inclination is to say "Heh!" and go on with my job.How much do you want to bleedOverall, a company has to determine if they want to be on the Bleeding edge of technology or the Leading...
- Tags: Strategy, Overall IT, Microsoft Corp., podcast, Gartner Inc., YouTube Inc., information technology, Carr, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2006-10-13
- Podcast: Is Carr right? Does IT not matter? Gartner attendees respond
- For those of you who havent heard of Nicholas Carr, hes the guy who, back in 2003 (gosh, has it been that long?) published an essay in Harvard Business Review with the title IT Doesnt Matter. There are only a handful of people under a handful of brands that could...
- Tags: Nicholas Carr, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-10-12
- Web 2.0 cold shower: Mike vs. Nick
- Rather than stoop to respond to Nick Carr’s weekend, gratuitous frontal attack, “Cold Treats,” Mike Arrington has taken his version of the high road by choosing to match Carr’s current treatise on the hypocritical inegalities of the blogosphere, "The Great Unread," with an Arrington style treatise: “Is Nick Carr the...
- Tags: Digg, Mike Arrington, &ldquo, Is Nick Carr
- Blog posts 2006-08-16
- Web 2.0? Who's got time for that?
- We all know Nick Carr is very hard to please when it comes to demonstrating the value of information technology, and shows no mercy as he picks apart the enterprise-readiness of emerging Web 2.0 applications. Which is to say, Web 2.0 may be ready for the enterprise, but the enterprise...
- Tags: knowledge, Nick Carr, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-04-20
- Utility computing and private IT generators
- Deal Architect Vinnie Mirchandani notes that Nick Carr has posted the slides from his talk at the Open Source Business Conference about the coming age of utility computing. Like electricity, organizations will inevitably be powered by automated, centralized grids of metered computing power, Nick predicted.Vinnie excerpts from his post, Utility...
- Tags: information technology, Nick Carr, utility computing
- Blog posts 2006-02-16
- Does Nicholas Carr still matter?
- Nicholas Carr calls it "the debate that won't die," the much-needed discussion of the value of information technology in today's enterprise world. Carr, of course, is author of the provocative book, Does IT Matter?, which followed a similarly provocative piece in Harvard Business Review. Indeed, the debate won't die,...
- Tags: Nicholas Carr, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-02-01
- Parsing Sun's rhetoric
- Parsing Sun's rhetoricCarr vs. SunCarr is irritated at Sun, because Sun says IT matters, and Carr says it does not. In fact at the recent Sun event, Sun slammed Carr and his thesis.So Carr is getting a little revenge with one of the easiest pickings, Sun's scattered message. ...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Processors, NETWORKING, Sun Microsystems Inc., Carr
- Discussion threads 2005-12-12
- Carr gives Microsoft a taste of its own OpenDoc medicine (and I pile on)
- Nicholas Carr, the Harvard Business School professor who posited that IT doesn't matter in his book Does IT Matter?, has, in his most recent blog, sided with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in its decision to phase out office applications from Microsoft and other providers in favor of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Nicholas Carr
- Blog posts 2005-09-19
- The end of corporate computing?
- Nick Carr has followed up his "IT Doesn’t Matter" article (Harvard Business Review, 2003) and subsequent book, Does IT Matter? (Harvard Business School Press, 2004), this time with another clarion call for extinction of enterprise computing as we know it. As in his previous article, "The End of Corporate...
- Tags: information technology, Nick Carr
- Blog posts 2005-04-18
- Integrating IT With Business Goals Is Only Marginally Easier Than Reaching the Summit of Everest
- The IT industry has been going through a period of 'Soul-searching' over how effective it has been in delivering business advantage. For years, McKinsey and Gartner have been publishing articles that have questioned how well IT is managed. What made this a public debate was an article by Nicholas Carr...
- Tags: Information Technology, Fujitsu Ltd., IT Industry, Carr, Strategy, Management
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- "IT is boring," scoff students
- "IT is boring," scoff studentsIT is like any other career.Some of it is interesting and some of it is boring. There is also a misconception that once you have a degree in computer science you are automatically the cats meow. That is, IT graduates don't believe they need to pay...
- Tags: Professional development, Outsourcing, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
- Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!
- Hey, kids! IT isn't boring!There is no future in ITThe IT bubble bust around 2000 was only the tip of the ice burg. Today, IT is a mediocre industry that has an ecosystem of incompetent and insufficiently educated people from the "IT Recruiters/HR", the people doing the hiring to the...
- Tags: Professional development, Strategy, Outsourcing, Recruitment & Selection, IT IS, information technology, career
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- A look at Obama's IT strategy: The Facebook connection and the scale challenge
- Barack Obama has sealed the Democratic party nomination with the help of social networking, a Facebook staffer and an off-the-shelf IT strategy. Those are some of the takeaways from a case study by David Carr at CIOZone, a site started by a bunch of my former Baseline...
- Tags: Strategy, Facebook, Phone, Information Technology, Volunteer, Barack Obama, David Carr, Hughes, Productivity, Social Networking, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-04
- From steam punk to the future, and how to plan for it...
- I've been doing a lot of reading, most recently 'The Big Switch' by Nicholas Carr. There are plenty of reviews of this fascinating work available - in essence this is actually two books. The first focuses on the history of American public utilities and makes a very plausible case for...
- Tags: Collaboration, Information Technology, Nicholas Carr, Nicholas, Collaboration Initiative, Strategy, Management, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Cloud computing's earthly bonds
- Nick Carr, who we all know doesn't like IT anyway, picked up on a new warning about a downside of cloud computing, reported by BBC. There's no such thing as a 'cloud' -- data has to be physically stored somewhere The issue is...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Bond, Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- House committee passes 'gluttonous' Pro IP Act
- So, we have a credit crisis, a foreclosure crisis, a full-blown recession and no plans on how to get out of Iraq or how to create a regional solution. So what do we need? How about an intellectual property czar and stiffer penalties for unauthorized music downloading? ...
- Tags: Damage, CD, IP, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
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