Will's Thoughtstream

Andrew McAfee , the Harvard Business School professor who coined the term Enterprise 2.0, has an interesting post on The Impact of IT on Businesses and their Leaders:

I told my students on the first day of class that my mission for the semester, which ended yesterday, was to convince them that IT is the single best tool they’ll have throughout their careers as business leaders. Cases and modules showed them (I hoped) that IT lets them define and impose new ways of working, and that they can also use information technology to essentially get out of the way and see what new ways of working emerge. In addition, technology lets them monitor and analyze phenomena of interest. In short, I told them in the wrap-up class yesterday, modern IT gives them an unprecedented ability to stay on top of and shape companies, and to overcome the problems of growth and decentralization summarized by the Chinese proverb that "The mountains are high, and the emperor is far away."

I would love to see his course curriculum.