I just read a really good paper, and I’d like to know what you think. It’s called Does IT Matter in Business Education? Interviews with Business School Deans. It’s by two professors at NYU’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and published by the Center for Digital Economy Research (June 27, 2006). Here’s the gist of it:
A majority of deans recognize the importance of IT in business and the need for its presence in a forward looking core business curriculum that is training managers for an increasingly global and information rich future. There are three themes around which such a presence is described by them: understanding how the transformative and wealth generating potential of IT changes business and society, understanding how to make successful IT investment decisions, and facilitating innovation and creativity in the use of increasingly available data for decision making.
Although you’re probably already nodding your head in agreement, take a look at the paper. It’s well written and has lots of good insights like this one:
The separation of information from its artifacts alters the fundamental economics of a number of industries. Their products become information goods, often subject to network economics. Music, film and publishing are early examples; there will be more. Recall that music was not considered in any way to be part of the IT industry twenty years ago.
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