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| Related DevelopMentor Courses | MORE | | 10 years on: IT does matter, more than ever Go back 15 years, 1997. In 1997 how many of us ever saw the inside of a travel companies IT system? OK, in 1997 a few were appearing on the web, go back to 1992 and I can safely say: if you didn’t work in the travel industry you didn’t touch travel IT. Underlying your delivery might be commodity products but choosing when and where to use off-the-shelf and when to write your own is more important than ever. Just under 10 years ago Nicholas Carr wrote a (in)famous piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter”. It was a strategy decision. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 19, 2012 |
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| The Latest from DevelopMentor | MORE | | 10 years on: IT does matter, more than ever Go back 15 years, 1997. In 1997 how many of us ever saw the inside of a travel companies IT system? OK, in 1997 a few were appearing on the web, go back to 1992 and I can safely say: if you didn’t work in the travel industry you didn’t touch travel IT. Underlying your delivery might be commodity products but choosing when and where to use off-the-shelf and when to write your own is more important than ever. Just under 10 years ago Nicholas Carr wrote a (in)famous piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter”. It was a strategy decision. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 19, 2012 When Does Quality Matter? It was for a business I had not heard of before and it looked like it might sell products I would enjoy. It looked like a 1997 high school project. It was hard to read, products were hard to view, and there were sundry user experience design flaws. My local Walmart has low quality customer service, a plethora of low quality products, and low quality stock organization. But Walmart isn’t trying to make me love their store and products. One person’s frustrating superstore is another’s Mecca for the best prices on commodity products. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Friday, June 5, 2009 I don’t understand Mergers and Acquisitions Over time your sales force will sell all of your products to all of your customers so will be nothing new to sell. Buying a company with a good product and a weak sales force may be good for both sides, your sales force get a new product to sell and the bought company gets its product sold. They bought the product sure, they bought the team that developed the product but within a few days of purchase the team had walked. In this industry it is more the people than the product that are important, takeovers often scare people away. Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, January 15, 2006 | -
| The Best from DevelopMentor | MORE | - 10 years on: IT does matter, more than ever
Go back 15 years, 1997. In 1997 how many of us ever saw the inside of a travel companies IT system? OK, in 1997 a few were appearing on the web, go back to 1992 and I can safely say: if you didn’t work in the travel industry you didn’t touch travel IT. Underlying your delivery might be commodity products but choosing when and where to use off-the-shelf and when to write your own is more important than ever. Just under 10 years ago Nicholas Carr wrote a (in)famous piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter”. It was a strategy decision. Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 19, 2012 - When Does Quality Matter?
It was for a business I had not heard of before and it looked like it might sell products I would enjoy. It looked like a 1997 high school project. It was hard to read, products were hard to view, and there were sundry user experience design flaws. My local Walmart has low quality customer service, a plethora of low quality products, and low quality stock organization. But Walmart isn’t trying to make me love their store and products. One person’s frustrating superstore is another’s Mecca for the best prices on commodity products. Derek Hatchard blogs on - Friday, June 5, 2009 - I don’t understand Mergers and Acquisitions
Over time your sales force will sell all of your products to all of your customers so will be nothing new to sell. Buying a company with a good product and a weak sales force may be good for both sides, your sales force get a new product to sell and the bought company gets its product sold. They bought the product sure, they bought the team that developed the product but within a few days of purchase the team had walked. In this industry it is more the people than the product that are important, takeovers often scare people away. Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, January 15, 2006 %>
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