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Over the next five years, we are likely to generate about as much data as we have generated in the whole of mankind’s history. The central task before human beings today is to teach the next generation to handle tsunamis of data.

“Top 75 Questions of Science,”

Discover Magazine, Spring 2008, p. 85

THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY ENTERPRISE

It is no longer adequate to recognize that the current IT organization is desperately in need of change, as we saw in the last chapter. We also need to recognize that the twenty-first century enterprise has emerged with an entirely different set of needs from those that had existed in the ...

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