People who scoff about working virtually remind me of those who laughed at Electronic Data Systems when Ross Perot started talking about outsourcing in 1962.
Go even further back and Ross Perot, founder of Electronic Data Systems and Perot Systems, unsuccessfully ran for U.S. president as a third-party candidate in 1992 and 1996.
The Sloan Management Review posted last week a great interview with Jeanne Ross, Director of the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR), where she explains why companies need data dictators.