Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead was once asked what the band’s goal was. His response: “Our goal is to make the music only we can make.” Like so many other things, this sound bite got me thinking about IT. What is the value only enterprise IT can make?

In today’s world, what is IT’s distinctive skill set? What is it that only we can do? Put another way: In the future, what will be IT’s super power? To answer this set of questions, I dusted off my Rolodex (a decidedly non-modern artifact), went to 100 of the smartest business people I know, and asked them a simple question:

Where do you think modern IT is heading?

As it turns out, that is a very difficult question to answer. I’ll get to that, but first, let me explain why I asked the question the way I did. 

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