Novabase-Diário Económico Conference on ICTs Creating Value for Business

A conference organised by Novabase and Diário Económico on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Creating Value for Business is being held at the Pestana Place Hotel on 29th May 2007. The conference, entitled Building Business Value With Technology: does IT really matter? will include a speech by Nicholas Carr, a former Harvard Business School Press executive and the author of the book Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage, which was published in 2004 by the Harvard Business School Press and which gained international attention by drawing peoples’ attention to computers becoming commodities, . The following speakers will also address the conference: Tor-Jakob Ramsoy, Partner, McKinsey & Co.; Rogério Carapuça, President of Novabase; Carlos Zorrinho, Coordinator of the Lisbon Strategy and the Technological Plan, Luis Magalhães (text in Portuguese), President of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), and Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, Secretary of State for Administrative Modernisation.