nimbleness and the need to compete via technology

skeptic — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 05:31:21 +0000

I've written before about how "the need to compete" is too often puffed up as a driver for technical change. Lots of IT people lack any objectivity around the business value of cool technology.

The mad competitive scramble

skeptic — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 04:05:27 +0000

The rate of change in IT is unsustainable, and is in fact a crowd hysteria. Just because the technology is changing that fast doesn't mean we have to, or can.

A major driver for that scrabbling rush is "competition". That is an over-used trump-card that needs some close skeptical scrutiny in all the companies playing it. Tweet this

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nimbleness and the need to compete via technology

The mad competitive scramble