Enterprises should be winning at DevOps and reaping the rewards of their digital transformation initiatives. After all, DevOps is not new. Its practices, technologies and processes have been widely accepted for years. Agile techniques, which underpin DevOps, are not new, either. Similarly, digital transformation may have started as a “tech solution” but it is now […]
Trust and Safety in the Age of Automation
“As with any new technology, it’s really important that we be thinking now about how to do [it] ethically and responsibly.” —Robert High, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, IBM Watson Here’s something to think about: According to an article in The Wall Street Journal, more than 30 countries have defensive weapons run by automation. […]
The 5th Industrial Revolution: When It Will Happen and How
Industrial revolutions have always dominated and changed the world in a big way. The first one happened way back in 18th century, and the second industrial revolution occurred almost two centuries later, in the 20th century. The third one happened only a half-century later, while the fourth one was observed within three decades. By the […]
OECD Report Shows U.S. Leads in IoT, Lags in Robotics
A newly published report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reveals the state of digital technology adoption, development and related research when it comes to digital transformation, manufacturing automation and providing skill sets for workers that will help carry them in the future. The “OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2017” found […]
Automation and Its Impact on Cultures
Let me tell you about my granddaughter. She’s 14 years old and wicked smart. For a while we did pair programming together online in Python. In the old days you took your grandkids fishing. Today we code. Go figure. These days, we don’t program together as much. She’s too busy preparing for math competitions. As […]
Survey: CIOs Driving Digital Transformation
A survey from IT World Canada (ITWC) apparently shows that CIOs are preferred by their companies to shepherd the digital transformation process in part because of their knowledge of legacy systems. The fifth annual CanadianCIO Census concludes that CIOs are “able to bridge in-place technologies required to run the business, while increasingly guiding their companies […]
Gartner: Digital Business Driving Spending
With half the year gone, Gartner just revised its 2017 worldwide IT spending projection up 1 percent to 2.4 percent. That may not sound like a lot, but last year’s IT spending growth was effectively flat at 0.3 percent. It isn’t just the uptick in the overall spending level that’s interesting, it’s how Gartner predicts […]
Career Lessons Learned from Top Tech Leaders
In the technology world, we are in a time of incredible disruption and innovation. Many years ago, my friend and “DevOps Handbook” co-author John Willis predicted that a decade from now, academics will call this period the “Cambrian explosion” — it was an incredibly vibrant 25-million year period that resulted in an incredible diversification of […]
Humans: The Ultimate Exception Handlers. Until …
Back at the turn of the century, I had a job working in the IT department of a Big Bank. The section I worked in was Mortgage Exceptions. My group’s task was to route exceptions that could not be addressed by the mortgage processing system to a human being for resolution. Most of the intelligence […]
When Technology Doesn’t Matter
Over 10 years ago, Nick Carr wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review with the title, “IT Doesn’t Matter.” As you might expect, an article with a title like that generated a significant amount of controversy. CEOs from leading technology companies and other writers at the time panned Carr’s premise in a way that, […]