Have you ever seen the sign, “Will work for food”? If you deconstruct the premise a bit, we all work for the rewards systems that interests us. We “trade” our labor (ideally, focus our passion), for a set of acknowledgements that range from survival to pride. And ultimately it is our employer (whether the boss […]
Digital Transformation Strains Traditional IT
It’s hard to believe, but it’s almost been 13 years since Nicholas G. Carr wrote his famous essay, “IT Doesn’t Matter.” In that column Carr argued that IT had become so pervasive in enterprises and so widely used that it had essentially become a commodity and was no longer useful as a tool for business […]
The IT mandate: Be a catalyst of business innovation
On the heels of their recent study, Accelerating Business Transformation Through IT Innovation: Getting the Business Leader Take on the IT Change Mandate, we had a conversation with Dave Murray, head of thought leadership at the BPI Network. The study found that IT organizations increasingly want to use technology to drive innovation and business growth, […]
DevOps Drives Innovation, Enterprise Differentiation
It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than a decade since Nicholas Carr wrote his controversial article “Does IT Matter,” where he argued that IT had become such an integral part of business that IT disappeared into the infrastructure in the way roads, rails, electric utilities, and engines have in industry. IT, like such […]
DevOps Can Be Your Fountain of Youth
There is a different, almost magical dynamic, at a startup that seems to fade away over time as companies establish themselves. One of the benefits of DevOps, though, is that it creates an environment where that startup magic can continue to thrive. DevOps is like a fountain of youth that lets corporations continue to act […]