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The Two Worlds of Information Technology

Posted February 9, 1999 | Leadership |
There are two worlds of IT. The first world is based on ideas refined over many years about what constitutes excellence in software development and IT. Second-world companies operate in treacherous, rapidly changing business environments, under constant market pressures.
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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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