The chief digital officer has always been a position that has struck me as a bit awkward as part chief marketing officer and part chief information officer. Since the CDO position started gaining traction about five years ago, most industry watchers have pegged it as a temporary role that would be displaced after the urgency […]
Becoming a Data Company: Back to the Future
Transformations are complex, and it’s often difficult to see the big picture when you’re in the middle of one. The elegance of the end-state of harmonious synergy between software and data belie the complexity and chaos of the transition we find ourselves in the midst of. Not that long ago, there was a general balance […]
DevOps: State of the Art in 2017, and Why CDOs Should Care
Nine years after the term “DevOps” was coined, the following two questions seem still open: What does it stand exactly for? and How do we make all this technology work together? From the perspective of the industrialization of work labor also in the software industry, the answer to the first question appears very clear to […]