“IT Doesn’t Matter” is a famous HBR article by Nick Carr, originally published in 2003. I wonder what companies that followed this advice think of it today. (If they still exist, of course.) hbr.org/2003/05/it-doesnt-ma…
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it was one of the things that led Reed Hastings to push for an early move to cloud. Worked out ok for Netflix...
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I would have argued that that was actually the opposite move, and he decided *only* IT matters
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Netflix also made an aggressive move to SaaS platforms like Workday and shut down most of the internal corporate IT
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Replying to @adrianco
All of that makes perfect sense, and I see the same pattern with e.g. serverless or other PaaS platforms. I fail to read the article that way, though

Feb 19, 2018 · 6:22 PM UTC