A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, IT as we know it didn't exist. I'm talking of course about the 1980s, when what we call IT was generally called MIS (managementrnof information services). MIS was about automating back-office functions such as accounting and payroll. It was mostly based on mainframes, and MIS professionals were largely programmers, whose unique skill was the ability to design effectively at scale - that is, write multi-thousand-line software programs. And the primary users of MIS were discrete business groups, not rank-and-file employees.
展开▼
