November 13th, 2007
I just listened to a fascinating presentation by Paul Strassmann at the IT Metrics & Produtivity Institute “Software Best Practice” conference Ft. Lauderdale. It was a detailed analysis of the IT transformation that began a couple years ago at HP, and is still underway. You can see a one-page summary of the results of that transformation in this Baseline article on Paul’s website; among other things, it shows that HP is now the world’s Number One IT vendor, in terms of revenues. Strassmann suggests that one reason for HP’s surpassing of IBM is the shift from a decentralized and dispersed IT operation to a network-centric environment with substantially fewer data centers, servers, applications, and IT workers. He discussed this in more detail in a January 2007 Baseline article entitled “7 Places to Clean the Clutter in I.T.”
While you’re at it, take a look at the complete list of Baseline articles on Paul’s site. It makes for some very informative reading. And don’t pass up any opportunity you might have to listen to Paul’s analysis and perspectives on the IT industry.
