Digital Transformation

Many business leaders claim to seek disruptive technology launching them beyond the grasp of their competitors. Do they really want disruption? True disruptive advancements are inherently discontinuous. The Disruption Paradox = business leaders attempting discontinuous advancement with incremental tools.  Incremental and disruptive are opposites. Let’s take the most compelling example today. Major businesses claim they […]

Boards, CEOs, business leaders are waking up to the fact that the cloud is just someone else’s data center.  There is little or no transformation.  Costs skyrocket and are unpredictable.  Vendor lock is in around the corner. The cloud as a transformative step is a vendor-led HOAX and people are waking up to it.

“Jack, we have 120 critical apps with little or no source code? What do we do if one breaks?” “Those we patch in binary. I think there may be some old guys in the park who can still do binary!” There are hundreds of critical business apps running today with no or little source code

One of the most common, but subtle waste models is the activity trap. Some poor, struggling sales rep does not know what to do, has massive sales pressure on him or her, so they just “do something!” That something becomes activity like working on an account that will never close but where the prospect will

It is one of the 10 largest companies on the planet. We are sitting with the executive owner of its cloud migration. His budget is almost $500 million a year with two cloud vendors. We ask him how his “digital transformation is going.” He responds: “We move stuff to the cloud. Our costs are pretty

Have you noticed articles about failed transformation outnumber those about successes by a wide margin? The brag bias should be in favor of posting success, not failure.  Results in the transformation world must be worse than even the article disparity shows. Transformations are failing, according to Gartner Group, at a 75% rate.  Since nobody wants

The cloud is just someone else’s data center. Vendor driven madness is NOT transforming anything! Critical minds are beginning to see moving to the cloud is just using someone else’s data center. Cloud value-added services enable faster server provisioning, reduction of bloated tech staffs but do not deliver anything close to transformation. Provisioning servers fast

Nothing Much Changes – Just Paying Vendors For Nothing! “We are moving to the cloud to digitally transform our business!” Company after company is realizing moving to the cloud has not and will not transform anything. “Oh my gosh! It’s just someone else’s data center! Who knew?” Sure, you can provision that crappy UNIX server

Using Legacy Security For Cloud-Transformation Is Not Working Who’s in your wallet? This month’s epic security failure at Capital One tells a story about how two of the arguably most technically literate and digitally advanced U.S. corporations failed to secure customer’s data. This story will certainly repeat for the less technically advanced. The lesson is

Digital Transformation, Today’s CIO Activity Trap One of the most common, but subtle waste models is the activity trap. Some poor, struggling sales rep does not know what to do, has massive sales pressure on him or her, so they just “do something!” That something becomes activity like working on an account that will never