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It's the Apps Stupid

Knowledge_gif Link: Director Magazine—for business leaders. By all means consolidate servers and outsource commodity infrastructure by buying it "off the grid," BUT to argue that IT doesn't matter anymore is just plain stupid. Now granted, it depends on how you define IT, and if that definition only includes "speeds & feeds" then, OK, the argument is plausible.

But those that make this argument often believe that the "speeds & feeds" is all there is to IT--that is, they completely ignore the power of applications. Name any innovative company, in almost any industry, and it is a safe bet that they have developed their own "killer apps" within the context of what they do. Likewise, there is all this talk about industries being disrupted by new entrants, name a disruptor that has not innovated in the apps space. You can't because it's software that is driving the disruption.

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