MIT Sloan Article on Grid Computing

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:53:37 GMT

In an article on Grid Computing appearing in Fall 2004 MIT Sloan Management Review, Heather A. Smith and Benn Konsynski explore the challenges of Grid Computing.

While taking an IBM centric view, focusing on Globus for example, the article raise several interesting issues :

... the internal integration that is achieved with technologies such as enterprise-resource planning (ERP) and customer-relationship management (CRM) is not going to help organizations evolve in the future. Hardwired technologies will actually ossify existing organizational structures, preventing the flexibility companies will need to operate in a network-centric environment.

... centralized command-and-control structures will no longer be effective.

Top Managers will therfore have to relinquish some degree of decision making control in favor of an accelerated ability to respond.

... some CIOs will find their jobs reduced in scope and will become IT directors.

I'm not sure about the last one, except maybe if we think that, in the case of global grids, each grid CEO become an IT director for the global grid ?

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MIT Sloan Article on Grid Computing