Monthly Archive:: February 2020
Business Leaders Must Understand How IT Is Fundamentally Changing
On February 25, 2020 In Thought Leadership
IT is fundamentally changing how it operates. The changes are broad and far-reaching. New technologies enable new operational practices, but they require fundamental changes in the way companies deploy and manage technology. Basically, companies are turning IT into a product rather than a set of processes and projects. Read my blog on Forbes
How To Avoid Unhelpful Or Biased Consulting And Advice
On February 18, 2020 In Thought Leadership
Many initiatives that companies fund in our current business environment fall under the broad heading of digital transformation. They are large, well-defined projects, but they actually take the form of ongoing agile journeys in which organizations implement and learn to use new technologies and then add more technology. As companies abandon the old waterfall
How Cloud Operations Are Changing In 2020
On February 12, 2020 In Thought Leadership
Fundamental changes are happening to the core set of assumptions that underpin how cloud ecosystems have been operating. Some of the traditional assumptions are no longer true today or won’t be true soon. The changes are for the worse – they raise prices and introduce significant additional complexity for companies that operate in a
Key Issues For Enterprise IT Spend Decisions In 2020
On February 6, 2020 In Thought Leadership
When considering your company’s IT spend decisions for 2020, it’s helpful to know what your peers and competitors expect for IT spend this year. What are their top investment priorities? Their biggest challenges? Is their focus different for 2020 than it was in 2019? How will their plans change if the economy strengthens or