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- 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
- Mass hysteria? It's not like Skype's died. It's just a really bad hangover
- Of the million or so I told you so's that have already been written regarding eBay's confession that it might not get the return on its investment in Skype that it originally thought it would, I like Nicholas Carr's the best. Carr reflected on the words of eBay Meg...
- Tags: Meg Whitman, Acquisition, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Nicholas Carr, Hindsight, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Networking, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
- Does Web 2.0 matter?
- Nicholas Carr discussed the thesis of his forthcoming book, The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny, during the morning session at the Supernova 2007 Conference.I am taking liberty with the title of Nick's previous book, Does IT Matter?.He is not in any way suggesting that Web 2.o doesn't...
- Tags: Web Technology, Utility computing, General, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Nicholas Carr asks if CIOs are "dead weight." Perhaps, unless the CIO *is* the IT dept.
- Nicholas Carr asks if CIOs are "dead weight." Perhaps, unless the CIO *is* the IT dept.ReleventDoes anyone really think Nicholas Carr is relevent anymore? I mean, he raised a devil's advocate, thought provoking issue a few years back and ever since he's tried to play the role of provocateur...
- Tags: Strategy, Outsourcing, information technology, Nicholas Carr
- Discussion threads 2007-03-23
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Nicholas Carr: IT still doesn't matter
- Nicholas Carr: IT still doesn't matterOk so IT doesn't matter - so what does?If IT can't get us competitive advantage - what can?To me this guy has see the symptom, but identified the wrong disease. The problem ISN'T IT doesn't matter, it's "the software crisis". Writing bespoke IT solutions (ones...
- Tags: Strategy, Process Innovation, information technology, Nicholas Carr, competitive advantage
- Discussion threads 2004-04-29
- Nicholas Carr: IT still doesn't matter
- Carr sticks to his guns in his new bookIn May 2003, Nicholas Carr stirred up a hornet's nest with his Harvard Business Review essay, "IT Doesn't Matter." Carr argued that information technology is necessary for business survival but doesn't provide any strategic advantage. Carr sits down with ZDNet Editor in...
- Tags: Nicholas Carr, information technology
- Videos 2004-04-28
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- Dell's 'Cloud Computing' and other strange stuff
- and When I took a wee poke at Dell the other day I could not possibly have known that labeling something Hybrid and expecting us to meekly gobble it up was only the tip of what can only be described as an ill-conceived marketing strategy iceberg....
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hoover, Cloud Computing, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
- Psystar hires firm that hit Apple for $10m
- Wacky Psystar has hired a Palo Alto law firm known for busting Apple for some big bucks, ChannelWeb reports. Apple is suing Psystar for its fun-time Mac clone computer. Psystar said it was able to deliver way more performance for less money than Apple charged....
- Tags: Apple Inc., Wacky Psystar, ChannelWeb, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-31
- Half a million Classmates headed for Portugal
- Several news sources are reporting on Portugal's agreement to purchase 500,000 second-generation Classmate PCs. The exact details of the transaction are still emerging, but parents will have the option of selecting either Windows XP or Linux pre-installed on the laptops. The most significant aspect of this...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, Portugal, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- "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
- The first optical pacemaker
- According to a short news release from the Optical Society of America OSA, an international team of scientists at Osaka University in Japan has used a femtosecond laser pacemaker to control heart muscle cells. So far, this optical pacemaker will only be used for laboratory research. As writes OSA, 'exposing...
- Tags: Heart, Contraction, Laser, Cell, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- 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
- XO-2 laptop (Photos: OLPC's new $75 XO-2 laptop)
- XO-2 laptop (Photos: OLPC's new $75 XO-2 laptop)A Glimse of the Future for Learning Appliances!Looking at the XO-2 makes me think of an enumerable amount of conversations that I have had with my education counterparts about an appliance that isn't an iPhone/PDA and isn't a notebook computer. I would...
- Tags: Notebooks, PRODUCTIVITY, photograph, XO-2, XO-2 laptop, laptop computer, One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2008-05-21
- Negroponte shows off amazing XO2 design - but will OLPC survive?
- OK, so this does look cool: OLPC's XO2 is a touchscreen-only book-like device that serves as ebook reader, media player, computer and presumably game machine. Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the specs of the new machine at a press conference in Cambridge. Some crucial facts: estimated cost $75, displays from Pixel...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- The XO-2 laptop looks great, but can OLPC deliver in 2010?
- The OLPC project announced today the next generation of its XO laptop. The news was expected--enthusiast sites such as OLPC News have been talking about it for a while--but this was the first time that OLPC has shown what it will look like. The concept is pretty...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO-2, XO, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
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