Closeness

There comes a time in your life when you meet someone. That person is nice, funny, maybe even intelligent (one of my requirements is that you should be able to argue for your standpoint instead of just grunting and be done with it) but above all, caring for the next person. Since persons like this don't grow on trees and you do not meet them on the street everyday I've taken the stand to be nice, help them. Which unfortunatly opens up the sad and shall we say, not so nice at sometime, opportunity to act nice, funny and intelligent (most of all intelligent) to manipulate the other person to get to what is wanted. Access to information about others, access to others through you.

A hug is not much asked for. An SMS saying that your impression is completly wrong and please do not do it anymore, well, that just confirmed my suspicions that had been growing over time.

A question was posed a few weeks ago. Does IT matter? There were two answers: IT does matter and well, IT might matter. Then again IT might not. IT ofcourse is nothing sexy like tits or penises but information technology as a tool in lining up the business strategy and gaining a competitive advantage over the competitors. Has the value of a strategic IS system diminished? Yes and no. Business may have the advantage for a year, max two or three but then the competition will have gained the distance. Early IS strategic positioning was dependent on the high price of IT and the fact that it was new and not everyone was capable of understanding the value it would add to the business (thinking in old ways here). What American Airlines succeeded with with its SABRE system would not be possible today as today IT is accessible by small and large alike. IT has become a commodity, like electricity. What then becomes important is how do you use it? Do you use it to power your TV to watch soap operas or do you use it to power a machine that will produce something of value, or add value by integrating existing systems into one efficient value adding machine that will for a short time blow the competition away and allow you to focus on the next thing that will keep you ahead of everyone else?