In his article "Do You Have Too Much IT?" Andrew McAfee recounts the IT perspective of Inditex Group's Zara stores, which beat out their competition using minimal technology. McAfee (2004, p. 18) argues that most companies buy too much IT for fear of not having enough in the rapidly changing technological environment and that they have ended up, according to Morgan Stanley, just throwing away $130 billion of it. McAfee's assertion is based on the fact that despite their substantial investment in IT, major clothing manufacturers cannot keep up
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