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It appeared in Forbes, it was about how to run IT better, and it was fatuously patronizing.

For a change of pace, it didn’t come from superficially informed business pundits who assume their general-purpose insights qualify them to offer up brilliant ideas for us we’d otherwise never have thought of.

The article (called to my attention by Bruce Gutzmann — thanks!), was titled, “The Convergence Of IT And Business,” (Taylor Buley, 11/19/2009) and suggests, “There’s a new role for IT workers: business consultant.”

Who, you might ask, is so out of touch they think this is a new idea? It was a panel consisting of executives from Microsoft, VMWare, Hewlett-Packard, and other “major technology companies.”

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Douglas Adams put five books into his Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy. KJR being a less ambitious undertaking, this will be the last installment in the Keep the Joint Running Centralization/Decentralization Trilogy.

And while Arthur Dent was endangered by the Vogons … the most dangerous bureaucrats in a multidimensional universe … we’re merely trying to avoid creating any more run-of-the-mill corporate bureaucracy than we have to.

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