Computing and the Economy

  • What, Me Worry? You Bet!

    Source: eWeek Published: Aug 2003 George Schussel rebuts the viewpoint expressed by Nicholas G. Carr in the Harvard Business Review article "IT Doesn't Matter" (May 2003). Carr argues that the IT industry is rapidly moving toward commodity status. He says IT is reaching the level of railroads and electrical power. Schussel disagrees and states that “The most successful companies of our time have achieved their success on the back of a superior investment in and strategy for IT.

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    • A Step Ahead, An interview by CFO Magazine

      Source: CFO Magazine Published: Oct 2002 An interview by CFO Magazine with MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson. Brynjolfsson leads the charge toward a greater appreciation of IT. For the past 15 years, Erik Brynjolfsson, the George and Sandi Schussel Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, has been studying the economic impact of corporate IT investment and, more recently, the strategic drivers behind E-business.

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