Contents

Copyright

Preface The Great Debate

1  Technological Transformations

The Rise of a New Business Infrastructure

2  Laying Tracks

The Nature and Evolution of Infrastructural Technologies

3  An Almost Perfect Commodity

The Fate of Computer Hardware and Software

4  Vanishing Advantage

Information Technology’s Changing Role in Business

5  The Universal Strategy Solvent

The IT Infrastructure’s Corrosive Effect on Traditional Advantages

6  Managing the Money Pit

New Imperatives for IT Investment and Management

7  A Dream of Wonderful Machines

The Reading, and Misreading, of Technological Change

Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

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