Business Technology Forecasts OF IT's Death Are Premature

摘要

It's not over. Not by a long shot. Those who would forecast the end of IT are about as right as the bright bulb who said a century ago that the Patent Office should be closed because everything that could be invented had, in fact, already been invented. It's not over. Is Microsoft's crowning achievement going to be PowerPoint? Is Dell predicting that it can double in size over the next several years by selling nothing but the products it has today? Did IBM buy PricewaterhouseCoopers' consulting business because it wants those employees to write Cobol and run cooling pipes under raised floors? General Motors CIO Ralph Szygenda spearheaded the company's efforts to shorten the time from concept to availability from five years to 18 months, and in so doing probably saved the company from permanent irrelevance. Is his job finished?