MIS or IT

http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html

Vlad touched on it in his usual frank manner, but I too have watched it happening for a while now. A shift is starting back to Information Systems or IS from Information Technology, IT. Somewhere around the late '90s people stopped referring to the computer guys who sat in the basement of the corporation and ran the stuff nobody else knew how to run as IS and started calling them IT. It is far more than a shift in nomenclature, it really captures what happened. Companies and people stopped thinking about information systems and started concentrating on technology, a subtle but important distinction. I fed on it and made lots of money in the process.

I do see the shift back from technology for technologies sake back to systems that align processes and data with business goals or objectives. And isn't that what MIS was doing, back in the day?

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