By Frank DiMaria, Campus Technology
Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 2003, Nicholas Carr sparked a firestorm when he proclaimed: “IT is best seen as the latest in a series of broadly adopted technologies that have reshaped industry over the past two centuries — from the steam engine and the railroad … to the electric generator and the internal combustion engine.” Thirteen years later, it’s time to revisit Carr’s argument. Today IT directors and CIOs are more likely to debate the virtues of the cloud, when to use it and when to offer services locally. Regardless, said Keith Boswell, director of technology at North Carolina State University’s College of Engineering, IT needs to do a better job of justifying its existence as a strategic asset. “I’d like to see us proposing more projects designed to enable and multiply the efforts of our faculty and our students, rather than having to sit back and defend the resources that we already have — which is what happens.”
https://campustechnology.com/articles/2016/06/09/does-it-matter-now.aspx
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