Google is now officially the evil empire for all other big tech players, as Microsoft used to be. Every day, there is yet another news flash on how someone is standing up to the Big G, with Apple recently leading the charge.
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09Sep
[ON magazine, Number 1, 2008]
The Nick Carr Q & A
The Big Switch: A New IT on the Horizon?
New choices in how a company runs its IT operations
Recently, Chuck Hollis, EMC’s most popular blogger, talked to Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google. In his book, Carr predicts significant changes in IT management as the Internet continues to provide more and more shared computing opportunities. Here are some highlights from their conversation.
Chuck Hollis: Your book presents some very thought-provoking ideas about the future of IT. The way you highlight the similarities between past and current trends is really going to make people think.
Nick Carr: What I’ve noticed over the last several years is a fundament shift in the way people use computers. Ten years ago, individuals used PCs as standalone devices, with applications running off their hard drives. Since then, we’ve seen a dramatic shift, with applications running off the Internet, out of somebody else’s data center.
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09Sep
[ON magazine, Number 1, 2008]
Jim Champy Q & A
Outsmart! How Today’s Innovative Companies Succeed
Exploring what it takes to win in today’s global Internet economy
In Outsmart!, consultant and best-selling author Jim Champy profiles nine high-growth companies that are leveraging the global IT infrastructure and new business models to redefine existing markets and create new ones. ON Editor Gil Press and managing editor Chris Kane recently spoke with Champy in his office.
Gil Press: What’s the central theme of the book?
Jim Champy: The underlying idea is that there really isn’t a lot new in management, but there’s a lot new in business. What Peter Drucker wrote in the mid-1950s is still valid, still the basic principle by which we run companies—and should run companies. However, because of the rise of the global IT infrastructure, there are many companies that are achieving success by operating in fundamentally different ways. When you look today at companies that outsmart their competitors, it’s a lot about how they’re executing. The classical strategist doesn’t believe that how you do work can be a competitive advantage. Their assumption is someone can easily copy that. I’ve never believed that.
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