Information Technology

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2. Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage

   Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage

   • Book by Nicholas G. Carr.
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11. Fluency with Information Technology- Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities (2nd Edition)

    Fluency with Information Technology

    Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities (2nd Edition):
    • Book by Lawrence Snyder.
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20. Managing the Information Technology Resource- Leadership in the Information Age

    Managing the Information Technology Resource

    Leadership in the Information Age:
    • Book by Jerry N. Luftman.
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29. Information Technology Project Management- Providing measurable Organizational Value

    Information Technology Project Management

    Providing measurable Organizational Value:

• Book by Jack T. Marchewka.

Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage

Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage

• Review:: 'IT is about Distinctiveness You gain an advantage over your competitors by having or doings something that they can't have or do. This means that in the end business profits are based on you ability to differentiate yourself. As IT becomes more and more a commodity it is only a natural economic fact that its ability to help your business differentiate itself will decrease. This book is based on sound economic principles. It is not nice or sweet news, but if you are prepared for the coming commodity you will not be disappointed. So, yes read this book and learn from history.
• Review:: 'verbose This is just an article from Harvard Business Review blown up into a book. Get the article reprint and save yourself time and money.
• Review:: 'Putting a lid on IT's "irrational exuberance" Carr provides a stirring indictment to the belief that IT brings with it the promise of competitive advantage. Instead, he posits that IT is merely a cost of doing business, cut in the same cloth as other innovations that once held a lot of promise like electricity and the railway system. Though no company can ever hope to operate much less compete without the above, its homogeneity and prevalence has somehow blunted its value. The search for that elusive silver bullet has found CEO's bequeathing so much power to IT that a good number have expected it to rescue bad business plans. Carr mentions specific examples of IT's inability to mask business problems but rather makes them more apparent earlier. One major point I find hard to believe is that the window of innovation for IT has closed. Though a lot of strides have been made, a lot of work is yet to be done. However, I fear that Carr would be proven prescient even seminal on this particular point in the short term. Though IT people continue to churn out the next line of killer applications, there is a danger that the customers may simply refuse to upgrade or purchase thereby sealing IT's fate as a commodity. An interesting thought gleaned from the book is that IT (automation) frees people to do far more important tasks. However, what those important tasks are is not clearly defined. Granting that most tasks will be automated, it will lead to more unemployment, a surplus of products (assuming productivity rises because of IT), low prices and profits until the next new thing is discovered that will disrupt the balance once again. But this hasn't happened yet. Though I don't agree with some of Carr's ideas, I believe it is good to read dissenting opinions on the future of IT.
• Review:: 'Interesting Carr contends that information technology (IT) has become a commodity. Thus, its costs are destined to steadily decline, it cannot provide a sustainable competitive advantage, but it can become a disadvantage if not utilized in a cost-effective manner to keep up. Carr points out that software has extreme economies of scale - very expensive to develop, but very cheap to copy, and hardware has been declining in cost according to Moore's Law for years. He admits that IT can provide a temporary advantage (eg. American Airlines' SABRE reservation system; American Hospital Supply's ordering system), but these will soon be matched, and the cycle-time for replication is steadily shortening. Implication: Software will become increasingly outsourced, and thus common between users. It is commonly thought that IT has brought great advances in productivity in recent years (eg. Greenspan is a public proponent). However, a [McKinsey]Create? study found that productivity growth was almost entirely concentrated in only 6 industries (out of 59) - computer assembly, semi-conductors, telecommunicating, retailing, wholesaling, and securities brokerage. The study also found that small projects were much more likely to pay off than large. Implication: Focus on areas where IT can make a difference, and emphasize small steps. Still another finding is that there was no relation between IT spending and results - the real driver for improvement was competition. Implication: Bodes poorly for automation in government. So what does all this mean? Hardware and technology costs will continue to fall - thus, applications that are not be cost-effective today may become so tomorrow. (The most obvious potential is in coordinating between companies.) Small steps, combined with changes in how business is accomplished (eg. Wal-Mart, Dell) and small steps are most likely to succeed. However, I must disagree with Carr about the competitive value of IT. While large customers (eg. G.E., G.M.) are increasingly outsourcing IT (to IBM, India, etc.), they are still focusing on refining and moving forward to competitive advantage - fleeting as it may be. Thus, one must not just be cost-defensive in IT use, but also aggressively looking for improvements in areas that matter.
• Review:: 'This is a real eyeopener! I had the pleasure of meeting Nick on a conference some time ago and I must say that I was really impressed. Nick is not your average overhyped, big-mouth IT guru but - on the contrary - a very modest, down-to-earth person displaying a lot of common sense. This is reflected in this excellent book. "Does IT Matter?" is definitely a must-read for every IT professional wanting to do a good job.

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Fluency with Information Technology- Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities (2nd Edition)

Fluency with Information Technology

Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities (2nd Edition):

• Review:: 'good vision -- bad follow-through I'm just now finishing up a semester teaching a CS0 class from this text. In a nutshell, I am teaching the same course next term, and I will not use this book again. Let me add a few useful things for the reader before I explain why. First, there are essentially two classes of texts out there for CS0 classes: (1) surveys of computer science qua science and (2) surveys of the information technology field. Snyder's book most definitely falls in the second category, although there are several chapters devoted to [JavaScript]Create?. Second, if you're going to use this text, make sure you get the online resources, especially the prepared labs and the 6-page PDF reference for [JavaScript]Create?. The labs are detailed, deep and very useful, and the reference is well-organized and easy to use. In fact, I did not have a chance to review this text before I adopted it for my course, and it was the labs (along with a solid-looking table of contents, credentials from the National Research Council, and a single 5-star review here) that convinced me to use it. I do hope this review will discourage others from doing the same. My problem with this text is, in a word, depth. Or rather the breathtaking lack thereof. It is organized coherently enough, but time and time again throughout this term, I found the treatment of various topics in the book so shallow that I had to spend almost double time filling in enough details to make things coherent to my students. The result was an absolutely enormous amount of work on my part, finding supplementary readings, putting extra care into lectures, writing extensive tutorial materials for the assignments, and so on. At every step of the way, I felt that I was fighting the text, rather than drawing from it. Some of the worst habits in the book's writing include: *_Long_, drawn-out analogies for ideas that are never given any other explanation, so that the "analogies" are completely devoid of context, and hence pointless. Invariably, such things serve only to muddy already-murky waters. *Gross over-simplification of many concepts, so much so that it is nearly impossible for a student to develop any sense of the real-world ideas that made a technology worth adapting. Perhaps the most egregious example of this is in the chapter on encryption, which in its presentation of RSA pretends that only one public key (3, 55) is ever generated, and but then proceeds to give a "formula" for computing the private key, before devolving into the spectacular silliness of a quotation of Euler's Theorem that by this point might as well be in the original german for all the good it would do a student. *Absolutely _awful_ problem sets. The few "exercises" that aren't just fill-in-the-blank and multiple-choice review consist of short-answer problems that alternated between the trivial and the pointless, or combinations of the two. The "test banks" are no better. With almost no exceptions, they were questions I would consider insulting to a six-grader, let alone a classroom of college students. The really strange thing about this is that the website for Snyder's own version of the course looks quite well organized and rigorous. In fact, the look of his class from that site was one of the reasons I selected this text. Some of this is the use of those lab assignments I mentioned above, which are quite nice. And Snyder's work with the NRC clearly indicates a fair amount of thought went into the design of this work. The only explanation I can offer for the disconnect is that he has simply been unsuccessful in putting into writing some of the apparent magic of the course from which this text arose. But the book does not pull it off, all my self-consciousness about armchair-quarterbacking aside. Good work with NRC report, but the book from that effort is still to be written.
• Review:: 'broad scope across all of IT The scope of Snyder's book is ambitious. It offers a grand sweep of teaching the basics of information technology. To a reader that will not major in this field. In other words, if this is a required text for one of your courses, then it may well be the last text in IT that some of you will ever use. Realistically, you will probably in later years have computer books, about whatever new hardware or software comes up. But those will usually be books far narrower in scope. So there is a big responsibility here. Luckily, Snyder carries it off well. This is not a book about how to turn on your PC or Mac, or how to navigate in a windowing system. He reasonably assumes that you've already learnt this by now. This frees him to discuss higher level topics. Like just what is the World Wide Web? What are the implications of a pervasive global network of computers? Whose reach is expanding daily. Naturally, pretty early in the text, we meet the Web. An entire chapter is devoted to HTML, due to its universal importance. This chapter is fairly low level detail. Most of you won't write HTML. Later on are perhaps broader topics. Like how to find information on the Web. This is more than just blithely typing a query into Google. He warns that there is far more to effective searching than that. You need to develop some feeling for which websites and other information sources are reliable. If you thought HTML is low level, he goes deeper. In simple terms, he tries to explain the innards of a computer. To demystify what must surely be inexplicable to some. He also does this with algorithms. Social issues are also extensively dealt with. The privacy you might have in an electronic world, and how this might come under attack through viruses and other malware. Or even by phishing. It is a good sign of the updated nature of this text that he gives an explanation of this recent scourge. And how you might avoid it. Though the suggestions he offers are all manual, and not programmatic. Which still exposes the unwary to phishing. But in this year 2005, that is indeed the state of the art in antiphishing.

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