To beat your competitors, are you devoting more than 50% of your capital expenditures to information technology? If so, you’re not alone. Businesses worldwide pump $2 trillion a year into IT. But like many broadly adopted technologies—such as railways and electrical power—IT has become a commodity. Affordable and accessible to everyone, it no longer offers strategic value to anyone. Scarcity—not ubiquity—makes a business resource truly strategic. Companies gain an edge by having or doing something others can’t have or do.

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