Paradox Of Choice
by Robert M. Lefkowitz, VP, Research and Executive Education
Presented April 04, 2005 at the OSBC 2005
Most CIOs hate choice. Every large IT shop has a team responsible for “setting standards” — a euphemism for creating artificial monopolies — and another to “negotiate enterprise agreements” — a euphemism for creating artificial monopolies.
Choice is expensive — but so are artificial monopolies. A financial examination of the following question: Is supporting choice more expensive than creating an artificial monopoly? And the application of the answer to open source business cases.