Is the IT Department Dead? 417
alphadogg writes "The IT department is dead, and it is a shift to utility computing that will kill this corporate career path. So predicts Nicholas Carr in his new book launched Monday, "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World from Edison to Google." Carr is best known for a provocative Harvard Business Review article entitled "Does IT Matter?" Published in 2003, the article asserted that IT investments didn't provide companies with strategic advantages because when one company adopted a new technology, its competitors did the same."
Is the IS Department Dead? (Score:5, Funny)
Nope! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Is the IS Department Dead? (Score:5, Funny)
This guy is off his rocker (Score:3, Funny)
But there are some CEO's and CTO's that will read this, and cut more funding from IT departments, making life even worse for people going into and working in IT. More skilled people will leave, and then with less manpower, more crackers will be breaking into the companies that are stupid enough to listen to this moron, causing more tort lawsuits, more credit card and personal financial profiles will be stolen by russians, thereby causing the total collapse of western civilization as we know it.
Or maybe not.
Re:Is the IS Department Dead? (Score:5, Funny)
Peeking in on them from time to time simply won't work - long-term monitoring is usually required, as their movement can be so subtle. Stop-motion cameras work well for this. One of the best techniques is to detect their movement indirectly, by periodically checking the amount of junk food packaging in their trash cans throughout a workday.
Dan East
Re:Is the IS Department Dead? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Pasteurization is dead. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Is the IS Department Dead? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Depends on the Market (Score:3, Funny)
Great, can you swing by tommorrow around 9 AM? I'm having some trouble with my sound card.
Re:lack of disadvantage is advantage (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is the IS Department Dead? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh they were moving. Killed each other by throwing HD-DVDs around.
Re:balderdash. IT will scale back, but never vanis (Score:1, Funny)