Where IT's @: Technology and the Economy

A conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and NABE's Technology Roundtable

September 10, 2004 at the Dallas Fed.

Since 1995, productivity has surged, with output per hour rising an average of more than 3 percent annually. Information technology is getting credit for much of this increase. But should it?

IT has brought significant enhancements: streamlined supply chains, automated routine workflows and greater customer insight, to name a few. These productivity advances have assured firms a leg up on the competition. But now, with the dust beginning to settle, some see IT as just another commodity, another input necessary to compete but insufficient to ensure competitive advantage.

This conference, cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the National Association for Business Economics,explored the state of information technology as it relates to productivity, the economy, business operations, venture capital, education and more.

Presentations online at the Dallas Fed include

W. Michael Cox (bio)
Senior Vice President and Chief Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
A Better Way: Productivity and Reorganization in the American Economy [1 MB PDF]

Hal Varian (bio)
Professor, School of Information Management and Systems
University of California at Berkeley
Microeconomics of Information Technology: An Overview [PDF]

Erik Brynjolfsson (bio)
Schussel Professor, Sloan School of Management, and Director of the Center for eBusiness
Massachussetts Insititute of Technology
The Digital Organization: Practices of Highly Productive Firms [PDF]

Jeff Donnellan (bio)
Vice President and CIO
Landmark Graphics Corp.
Does E&P IT Matter? [4.5 MB PDF]

Alan Camerik “Rik” Heller (bio)
President and Founder
FreshLoc Technologies
How Cool Is That? [1.3 MB PDF]

Chris Anderson (bio)
Editor in Chief
Wired
The Long Tail: The Economics of Digital Media [1.4 MB PDF]

Nicholas G. Carr (bio)
Author and Former Editor of Harvard Business Review
Does IT Matter? [PDF]

Ron Harris (bio)
Founder and General Partner
Southwest Capital Partners
Is IT Venture Capital on a Comeback? [1.4 MB PDF]

Robert Helms (bio)
Lars Magnus Eriksson Professor and Dean, Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas
Education, Research and Technology [1.4 MB PDF]

Dennis Wilson (bio)
Chief Technology Officer, Chairman and Founder
Nanotechnologies Inc.
Advanced Nanoparticle Enabled Applications and Their Impact on the US Economy [PDF]