Nick Carr's article 'IT Doesn't Matter' was published in in Harvard Business Review in May 2003 and ignited an industry firestorm for its perceived dismissal of the strategic value of IT. Ten years ago, Nick Carr said IT doesn't matter -- sort of.

Apr 01, 2004 A confident showman, he challenged Mr Carr to a debate, on stage and on webcast. It was a debacle. “Sun does matter,” Mr McNealy seemed to be arguing, or even “I still matter.” Even Mr Carr's critics in the audience wondered whether Mr McNealy had actually bothered to read the article. Nicholas Carr speaking at the VINT Symposium held in Utrecht, Netherlands on June 17, 2008. Carr (born 1959) is an American writer who has published books and articles on technology, business, and culture. Nicholas Carr Menu Skip to. Best read so far about the significance of the shift to cloud computing,” and Does IT Matter? Executive editor of the. Carr, then editor at large of HBR and now a consultant. Nology doesn’t matter. Of course it does. Among other things, IT improves productivity.

The jarring headline of Carr's May 2003 article, 'IT Doesn't Matter,' is what many people remember, and it tends to overshadow his more thought-provoking thesis: that companies have overestimated the strategic value of IT, which is becoming ubiquitous and therefore diminishing as a source of competitive differentiation. 'The opportunities for gaining IT-based advantages are already dwindling,' Carr wrote in the Harvard Business Review article. 'Best practices are now quickly built into software or otherwise replicated. And as for IT-spurred industry transformations, most of the ones that are going to happen have likely already happened or are in the process of happening.'

[ Q&A: BLOG POST: ] Carr advocated spending less on IT, both to reduce costs and to decrease the risk of buying soon-to-be obsolete equipment and applications. He also predicted the rise of utility-like computing: 'The arrival of the Internet has accelerated the commoditization of IT by providing a perfect delivery channel for generic applications.

More and more, companies will fulfill their IT requirements simply by purchasing fee-based 'Web services' from third parties -- similar to the way they currently buy electric power or telecommunications services.' I knew I was writing something that was provocative and that went against the grain of a lot of the rhetoric that was out there about information technology and business. Skymaster Dxh 30 Software Engineering.