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
You Don’t Need A Data Center Anymore – Yours Or The Cloud For a generation we have lived with Moore’s Law: the speed and capability of computers doubles every two years while their cost is cut in half. There has not, however, been a Moore’s Law in software. Actually, quite the opposite has happened. Software
EDGE Computing Vs. Computing At The Edge. Why It Really Matters! Edge computing and computing at the Edge: identical words in a different order that deliver starkly opposite outcomes. Computing at the edge replicates your data centers. IBM, Dell, Nutanix, HP sell computing at the edge because it is an extension of what they sell
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
The Disruption Paradox – Part 1 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
The Digital Transformation Myth – The BIG Story In 2022 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:
FAKE Digital Transformation Hoax Opening Massive Sales Opportunity Vendors are selling their products as transformative, when they may not be. Remember Y2K vendor-led hoax that scared the living daylights out of boardrooms and breakrooms across the globe? Well if not, here’s a quick link. Hundreds of articles predicted late payroll checks, manufacturing systems failing … even