Tag: IT

From learning how to pivot with rising technologies to becoming aware of the next digital disruptions, keeping up with technological advances is essential to the bottom line of any business.

With the city of Atlanta being home to The Georgia Institute of Technology and being listed by Forbes as the 3rd largest Tech Hub in America, there is no doubt that Atlanta is full of tech news, knowledge and networking opportunities.

Back in 2003, Nick Carr wrote an article for the Havard Business Review titled “IT Doesn’t Matter”. This obviously had a lot of headline readers furious. With a worldwide IT spend of $2.6 trillion dollars, it’s no wonder why Nick Carr was labeled a heretic and blasphemer. It seems we live in a day and age where assumptions about IT run rampant. Ever since a young Intel engineer named Ted Hoff, back in 1968, found a way to put the circuits necessary for computer processing onto a tiny piece of silicon, the business world has dubbed IT as the backbone of commerce. And there’s no doubt that this assertion rings true in many ways since it spurred a series of technological breakthroughs—desktop computers, local and wide area networks, enterprise software, and the Internet.

The IT industry is buying less hardware, says Andrew Thomas

It’s been a year of mixed fortunes for IT businesses.

It’s sad but true. Some people, no matter what good intentions they have, will never be successful.