Comments on: It Looks Like IT Isn’t Helping Productivity Any More. Yeah, But… http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/ The Business Impact of IT Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: kýz oyunlarý http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/comment-page-1/#comment-3229 kýz oyunlarý Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:18:19 +0000 #comment-3229 I often wonder if the ongoing reorganizations, new regimes of management (including IT management) frustrates productivity enhancements. IT is a tool. Skill with a tool matters. It the tool is complex, skill development will be hard. If the tool is enterprise-wide, team skill matters. I have seen several large IT shops go through reorgs multiple times a year, with the longest runway of stability being perhaps two years. Is this enough time to establish significant productivity improvements? Perhaps the problem isnÂ’t with IT at all. Perhaps the problem is with teams, organizational structure, skill development and time. Perhaps people just canÂ’t absorb and use for advantage all the IT tools available to them. I often wonder if the ongoing reorganizations, new regimes of management (including IT management) frustrates productivity enhancements. IT is a tool. Skill with a tool matters. It the tool is complex, skill development will be hard. If the tool is enterprise-wide, team skill matters. I have seen several large IT shops go through reorgs multiple times a year, with the longest runway of stability being perhaps two years. Is this enough time to establish significant productivity improvements?

Perhaps the problem isnÂ’t with IT at all. Perhaps the problem is with teams, organizational structure, skill development and time. Perhaps people just canÂ’t absorb and use for advantage all the IT tools available to them.

]]> By: Trabalho em Casa http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/comment-page-1/#comment-3228 Trabalho em Casa Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:03:23 +0000 #comment-3228 Is IT changing faster? Is IT changing faster?

]]> By: ss http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/comment-page-1/#comment-3227 ss Wed, 05 Sep 2007 04:44:33 +0000 #comment-3227 What will be the future of IT? What will be the future of IT?

]]> By: IT proffesional http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/comment-page-1/#comment-3226 IT proffesional Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:04:30 +0000 #comment-3226 WSJ reports big slowdown in IT investments during last 4 months and this just seconds your thoughts. Thanks for this post! WSJ reports big slowdown in IT investments during last 4 months and this just seconds your thoughts.

Thanks for this post!

]]> By: David http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/comment-page-1/#comment-3225 David Sat, 18 Aug 2007 08:22:47 +0000 #comment-3225 IT is constantly chaging feild.There are always ups and downs when its about IT or its productivity. People who are open for changes are always good at using IT for the overall growth. IT is constantly chaging feild.There are always ups and downs when its about IT or its productivity.
People who are open for changes are always good at using IT for the overall growth.

]]> By: Edmund Ng http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/comment-page-1/#comment-3224 Edmund Ng Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:46:19 +0000 #comment-3224 I would agree that IT does not improve productivity. Having run the SAP Academy previously and after selling SAP solutions to many Fortune 500 companies, I must say that the biggest set-back companies are experiencing is change management. From the Management's point of view, having a Enterprise Software is always great. However, the implementation of dreadful and it's a total nightmare when it comes to getting all the key users to change from an existing system to another. Newer staffs have no problems but I figure that those in the 40s really dread the change. Some either give the system problem or quit from the job. Productivity will only come when all the IT Infrastructure is 100% outsourced. I would agree that IT does not improve productivity. Having run the SAP Academy previously and after selling SAP solutions to many Fortune 500 companies, I must say that the biggest set-back companies are experiencing is change management.

From the Management’s point of view, having a Enterprise Software is always great. However, the implementation of dreadful and it’s a total nightmare when it comes to getting all the key users to change from an existing system to another.

Newer staffs have no problems but I figure that those in the 40s really dread the change. Some either give the system problem or quit from the job.

Productivity will only come when all the IT Infrastructure is 100% outsourced.

]]> By: vinnie mirchandani http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/comment-page-1/#comment-3223 vinnie mirchandani Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:47:00 +0000 #comment-3223 Andrew, part of the reason is 60 to 75% of most IT budgets are spent with the top 20 tech and telecom vendors - IBM, Oracle, Verizon, EMC etc and the last few years they have tried to consolidate and focus on inevstors more than innovate or deliver productivity. As I wrote below, breakhrough price points are coming - from drisputive players, nto from incumbents- in virtually every tech sector and those should help IT productivity stats quite a bit... http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2007/06/vinnies_law.html Andrew, part of the reason is 60 to 75% of most IT budgets are spent with the top 20 tech and telecom vendors – IBM, Oracle, Verizon, EMC etc and the last few years they have tried to consolidate and focus on inevstors more than innovate or deliver productivity. As I wrote below, breakhrough price points are coming – from drisputive players, nto from incumbents- in virtually every tech sector and those should help IT productivity stats quite a bit…

http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2007/06/vinnies_law.html

]]> By: Vince Kellen http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/comment-page-1/#comment-3222 Vince Kellen Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:40:19 +0000 #comment-3222 I often wonder if the ongoing reorganizations, new regimes of management (including IT management) frustrates productivity enhancements. IT is a tool. Skill with a tool matters. It the tool is complex, skill development will be hard. If the tool is enterprise-wide, team skill matters. I have seen several large IT shops go through reorgs multiple times a year, with the longest runway of stability being perhaps two years. Is this enough time to establish significant productivity improvements? Perhaps the problem isn't with IT at all. Perhaps the problem is with teams, organizational structure, skill development and time. Perhaps people just can't absorb and use for advantage all the IT tools available to them. I often wonder if the ongoing reorganizations, new regimes of management (including IT management) frustrates productivity enhancements. IT is a tool. Skill with a tool matters. It the tool is complex, skill development will be hard. If the tool is enterprise-wide, team skill matters. I have seen several large IT shops go through reorgs multiple times a year, with the longest runway of stability being perhaps two years. Is this enough time to establish significant productivity improvements?

Perhaps the problem isn’t with IT at all. Perhaps the problem is with teams, organizational structure, skill development and time. Perhaps people just can’t absorb and use for advantage all the IT tools available to them.

]]> By: Mario Ruiz http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/comment-page-1/#comment-3221 Mario Ruiz Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:30:52 +0000 #comment-3221 Greenspan in 1998 talked about productivity in relation with technology: real-time data; the ubiquitous office with cell phone and office; the innovation in the factory floor and distribution channels; computer modeling design; biotechnology applied to agriculture and medicine enhanced per workhour; new goods and services based on the Internet with potential lower costs of production. We know what happen next. In 2002, he addressed productivity in relation of gross product per workhour measured for the non-farm business sector because it rose 2.25% per year over the past five years. Now very cautious Greenspan asked: how long can we expect this remarkable period of innovation to continue? He then answered disputing Lou Gerstner (IBM) who argued: we are only five years into a thirty-year cycle of technological change. Today the cost of growth and energy prices can challenge the current wave of innovation and how fast the exploitation of the newer technological synergies proceeds. Accelerating productivity poses a significant complication for economic forecasting because of how unpredictable can be growth in the labor force. Long-term productivity optimism may currently seem a bit out of place although it is remarkable and encouraging that a significant step-up in the growth of productivity appears to have persisted. Mario Ruiz www.oursheet.com Greenspan in 1998 talked about productivity in relation with technology: real-time data; the ubiquitous office with cell phone and office; the innovation in the factory floor and distribution channels; computer modeling design; biotechnology applied to agriculture and medicine enhanced per workhour; new goods and services based on the Internet with potential lower costs of production. We know what happen next.

In 2002, he addressed productivity in relation of gross product per workhour measured for the non-farm business sector because it rose 2.25% per year over the past five years. Now very cautious Greenspan asked: how long can we expect this remarkable period of innovation to continue? He then answered disputing Lou Gerstner (IBM) who argued: we are only five years into a thirty-year cycle of technological change.

Today the cost of growth and energy prices can challenge the current wave of innovation and how fast the exploitation of the newer technological synergies proceeds.

Accelerating productivity poses a significant complication for economic forecasting because of how unpredictable can be growth in the labor force.

Long-term productivity optimism may currently seem a bit out of place although it is remarkable and encouraging that a significant step-up in the growth of productivity appears to have persisted.

Mario Ruiz
http://www.oursheet.com

]]> By: Jim McGee http://andrewmcafee.org/2007/06/it_looks_like_it_isnt_helping_productivity_any_more_yeah_but/comment-page-1/#comment-3220 Jim McGee Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:42:23 +0000 #comment-3220 One thing this suggests to me is that design skills, broadly conceived, will become increasingly important in IT-fueled competition. Organizations will succeed in terms of how cleverly they put together multiple components (cheaper technology, insight into customers or business partners, existing systems and data, etc) to deploy new products and services. One thing this suggests to me is that design skills, broadly conceived, will become increasingly important in IT-fueled competition. Organizations will succeed in terms of how cleverly they put together multiple components (cheaper technology, insight into customers or business partners, existing systems and data, etc) to deploy new products and services.

]]>