Almost 20 years ago close to 4, 000 people from 200 companies gathered in San Diego for a conference to discuss thefutureof health-care informationtechnology.
There are similar problems with another theory about thefutureofthe firm: that informationtechnology will slowly but surely deconstruct the company as we know it.
The IT commission was assembled to present Gilmore with "Investing in theFuture: Toward a 21st Century InformationTechnology Workforce, " a report that examines the ability ofthe state's IT industry to acquire and develop trained workers.