[FDE] The Impact of Information Technology (IT) on Businesses and their Leaders

[Crispin Cowan]

Ali, Saqib wrote:
> In his recent Blog post, professor Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business
> School, discusses how IT has been viewed by Business Leaders in the
> past and how the perception is changing with the advent of Web 2.0:
> http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/index.php/faculty_amcafee_v3/is_general_management_being_transformed_by_it/
>
> Excerpt of Blog post:
> ...
> -Overhyped. One of the most common complaints I hear is that IT
> proponents have an enduring tendency to overpromise and underdeliver.
> After managers feel like they've been sold a technology bill of goods
> a few times, they stop listening to the sales pitch.
>
> However the landscape is changing with Enterprise 2.0 enabled
> applications, as these are intended towards organizational level
> rather then single task or process.
>   
That's pretty ironic, considering that Web 2.0 is the most over-hyped
thing to come along since Web 1.0 :-)

Crispin

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