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HBR: IT Doesn't Matter

An article about IT and how it should be seen as a commodity (gas, electricity, railroads) has stirred the IT professional community. Fortune calls the author's views stupid and dangerous.

Buy the report or read an excerpt:

Harvard Business Online

A response has been made in Fortune:

"There's nothing like a punchy headline (see above, for instance) to get an article some attention. A recent long piece in the Harvard Business Review shockingly labeled "IT Doesn't Matter" has garnered the magazine more buzz than at any time since the Jack Welch affair. The article has been approvingly cited in the New York Times, analyzed in Wall Street reports, and e-mailed around the world. But without such a dramatic and reckless title I doubt the article would have been much noticed. It's a sloppy mix of ersatz history, conventional wisdom, moderate insight, and unsupportable assertion. And it is dangerously wrong."

Stupid-Journal Alert: Why HBR's View of Tech Is Dangerous

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