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The Two Worlds of Information Technology

Posted February 9, 1999 | Leadership | Amplify

Last summer, I had an experience that continues to make me think. I was at an IFPUG conference (the International Function Points User's Group is an organization committed to refining techniques for software measurement), and I was talking with a manager who had been successful in manufacturing for a large multinational company and now had duties in IT. Because he was new to IT, he felt tentative about his new responsibilities and was looking for ideas.

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Robert Austin
Robert D. Austin is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is a regular speaker at the annual Cutter Summit and often delivers Cutter Bootcamps. Dr. Austin served as a professor on the faculty at Harvard Business School for more than a decade, and then as Professor of Management of Innovation & Digital Transformation at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is currently Professor… Read More
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