Nicholas Carr on IT in 2018

 
Nicholas Carr tends to be nothing if not controversial!  In reality, his controversy often comes from his choice of headlines, rather than the arguments he makes underneath them (e.g., the infamous “IT Doesn’t Matter” piece).
His latest post is Alan Turing, cloud computing and IT’s future, and in the post you will find a link to [...]

Business-IT Maturity - Implications of Discontinuities

Yesterday I suggested a refinement to the single, continuous “S” curve Business-IT Maturity model, to one comprised of a series of “S” curves, with discontinuities between them.  I think the refinement is more than trivial, and certainly not simply cosmetic.  I’ve blogged before on the notion of Level 2 “sticking points.”   These are behaviors and [...]

Re-thinking Business-IT Maturity

It’s time to update our venerable Business-IT Maturity curve - this is a BIG DEAL!  (Well, at least it is to some of us!)
For the last 10 years or so I have been drawing a simplified version of the Business-IT Maturity curve as a single ‘S’ curve, or learning curve.  I typically talk about three [...]