Over Your Head, But That Was The Point (Score 1)

The point of the original article is not that IT lacks intrinsic value, but that it has no strategic value- that is different. 1. Pouring money into an IT dept does not insure advantage. 2. Most suites in use today are not proprietary- everyone has the same technology available to them- again no strategic advantage. 3. Lastly, he wanted people to get tripped up on his thesis and confuse strategic value with intrinsic value, and get all flustered. You are the reason he got a book deal, and hopefully it will continue to provoke more discussions like this that get people to examine the concept of strategic value.