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IT and Big Business

In: The Integrity of Intelligence

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  • Bryan Glastonbury

    (University of Southampton)

  • Walter Lamendola

    (Colorado Trust)

Abstract

Summary The business world has a long tradition of coping with moral issues, sometimes by attacking, ignoring or evading ethical principles, sometimes by compromising or supporting them. IT has little tradition, either of moral corruption or achievement, and comes into partnership with business organizations with an unusually clean record. The partnership has proved profitable for both sides. Big companies have offered the IT industry a guaranteed market. IT has given business a range of vital new or improved capabilities, to monitor the operations of the company, control staff and administration, and use modelling processes to plan and project ahead. IT began as a tool for senior managers, and although the range has extended, technology’s contribution to the tasks and potential efficiency of management are enormous, and managers now exercise a significant influence over developments in IT. We argue that the value and cosiness of the partnership is mutually appreciated, though one outcome has been to leave the rest of us on the sidelines.

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  • Bryan Glastonbury & Walter Lamendola, 1992. "IT and Big Business," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Jo Campling (ed.), The Integrity of Intelligence, chapter 6, pages 84-97, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-22734-1_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22734-1_6
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