GA2020.6.9

David's Time With Peter F. Drucker 2020.6.9 冠鼎学院（GA）——识别·培养·考验未来的领导者 From the “T” to the “I” in “IT” A half century ago, around 1950, prevailing opinion overwhelmingly held that the market for that new “miracle,” the computer, would be in the military and in scientific calculations, for example, astronomy. Afew of us, however——a very few indeed——argued even them that the computer would find major applications in business and would have an impact on it. These few also foresaw——again very much at odds with the prevailing opinion——that in business the computer would be more than a very fast adding machine doing clerical chores such as payroll or telephone bills. On specifics, we dissenters disagreed, of course, as “experts” always do. But all of us nonconformists agreed on one thing: The computer would, in short order, revolutionize the work of top management. It would, we all agreed, have its greatest and earlist impacts on business policy, business strategy and business decisions. ——《Management Challenges for the 21st Century · Chapter4 Information Challenges》(Peter F.Drucker,1999)