http://blogs.gartner.com/jeffrey_mann/2008/10/06/how-long-before-it-gets-blamed-for-the-financial-crisis/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:44:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://blogs.gartner.com/jeffrey_mann/2008/10/06/how-long-before-it-gets-blamed-for-the-financial-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Jeffrey Mann Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:36:04 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/jeffrey_mann/2008/10/06/how-long-before-it-gets-blamed-for-the-financial-crisis/#comment-15 That didn't take long. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12dooling.html?ref=opinion That didn’t take long.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12dooling.html?ref=opinion

]]> http://blogs.gartner.com/jeffrey_mann/2008/10/06/how-long-before-it-gets-blamed-for-the-financial-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-7 John Pescatore Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:05:06 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/jeffrey_mann/2008/10/06/how-long-before-it-gets-blamed-for-the-financial-crisis/#comment-7 Another thing to think about: remember all the arguments about how "Real Time Infrastructure" could enable "Fire Aim Ready" type "Really Bad Decisions"? You can't blame technology for bad decisions but bad technology decisions surely caused distraction that played a role in this crash, just the way texting while driving plays a role in many automobile crashes these days. Another thing to think about: remember all the arguments about how “Real Time Infrastructure” could enable “Fire Aim Ready” type “Really Bad Decisions”? You can’t blame technology for bad decisions but bad technology decisions surely caused distraction that played a role in this crash, just the way texting while driving plays a role in many automobile crashes these days.

]]> http://blogs.gartner.com/jeffrey_mann/2008/10/06/how-long-before-it-gets-blamed-for-the-financial-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Mark Raskino Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:13:40 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/jeffrey_mann/2008/10/06/how-long-before-it-gets-blamed-for-the-financial-crisis/#comment-6 Not long now I think Jeff. I reckon the mathematical models are likely the real 'core innovation' not the computers they run on but that won't save IT from taking some of the flak. Remember how much blame e-commerce technology took for very bad investment and business management in 2000/1. See my post a couple of weeks ago about CDOs and the Hype Cycle http://blogs.gartner.com/hypecyclebook/2008/09/24/i-wonder-if-cdos-are-following-the-hype-cycle/ Not long now I think Jeff. I reckon the mathematical models are likely the real ‘core innovation’ not the computers they run on but that won’t save IT from taking some of the flak. Remember how much blame e-commerce technology took for very bad investment and business management in 2000/1. See my post a couple of weeks ago about CDOs and the Hype Cycle http://blogs.gartner.com/hypecyclebook/2008/09/24/i-wonder-if-cdos-are-following-the-hype-cycle/

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