Tag: transformation
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Enterprise ROI is elusive – maybe ROI is just headcount chopping, not revenue growth and “transformation”
From “that meeting could have been an email” to “that meeting could have been a ChatGPT session.” Recent Forrester survey summary: AI is still stuck in “efficiency mode.” In many organizations, a technology organization leads AI efforts and is treated as a cost center. Those CIOs are incentivized to optimize for efficiency, not growth. The…
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Digital Transformation Fatigue, and how to get over it – DOGE case study
This is the story of most large IT transformation/modernization efforts. Once the executives that started it leaves, it stops. Then a new one comes in that does almost the opposite. Put all your apps in the cloud, bring all your apps on-premises. Tide goes out, tide comes in. That pattern of course fuels staff “modernization…
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– Gartner Raises IT Spending Forecast For 2024 Again – IT Jungle – “Gartner thinks that spending on servers, storage, and networking for the datacenters of the world will rise by 34.7 percent in 2024 to just a hair over $318 billion. We have not seen this kind of growth since the recovery after the…
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– Unleashing Transformation – Yup, this all of the stuff. Arguably, it’s missing #8: actually do it and stop blaming “culture.”
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Is Your Organizational Transformation Veering Off Course? hbr.org/2024/08/i… “The research highlights that shifts in emotional energy, such as increased frustration or anxiety, can signal that a transformation is off track. Addressing these emotional shifts can help prevent derailment.”
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The Product Model in Traditional IT – Silicon Valley Product Group : Silicon Valley Product Group – ”Outcomes vs Predictability” is good framing for switching from traditional IT to “digital transformation.”
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Everyone is Busy: Who Has Time to Transform? – Mark tries to crack the “how to engineer a corporate structure, plan, and incentive plan to actually change” problem of digital transformation. I think the answer is: make small goals that you do on a short (quarterly) basis instead giant, waterfall annual strategy plans. // “My…
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Change takes a long time – This is my new thing after five years of talking with large companies about digital transformation: it just takes a long time. There’s usually a lack of urgency, but this is a benefit for most of those large companies. The employees, management, and share holders want stability, predictability. Also,…
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IRL OKRs – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #60
Family pets as OKRs in FY23. Executives to talk about getting better at software. Scroll to the end to see bacon frying. IRL OKRs New family member. Objective: enhance our comfort, peace of mind, and sense of comradely by owning a dog. Key Result: walk dog three times a day so that it does not…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #55
Original content DevOps Metrics for Technical, Business and Culture Transformation This is the talk I gave at VMworld this year. It goes over three types of metrics to use in all your digital transformation, get better with software stuff. While I don’t list very actionable (yeah! check out that work use!) metrics for culture, I…
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Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #53
Excuses to keep doing exactly the same thing, if not even less. From The Fight Between Carnival and Lent. Original content Software Defined Talk Episode #326: Just Jump In — www.softwaredefinedtalk.com This week we recap Datadog’s announcements, discuss Sequoia’s investment pivot and hot takes on Facebook’s intent to rebrand. Plus, some thoughts on heated pools……
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🗂 Link: Financial services and cloud: Delivering digital transformation in a highly regulated industry
“The most difficult part of what was a 10-month programme of work was that we were working to transform the current application, which was manually built, on-premise, and converting that into infrastructure as code,” says Niculescu. “So we essentially took what would be manually-built environments that would usually take us weeks and months and numerous…
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Book finally out: Monolithic Transformation
Hello there! My little booklet on how enterprises are improving their software organizations is finally out: Monolithic Transformation. It’s one of those little O’Reilly books, sponsored by Pivotal. I’ve worked on it for a couple years, frequently excerpting drafts of it and using it as the basis for the talks I give. You can get…
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Link: Do you need a corporate vision in government IT?
“In an organisation like a local authority this is especially tough as they are such disparate entities. Think about it, in what strange universe does it make sense for a single organisation to collect taxes, deliver social care, pick up bins and operate transport? None of these and many of the other services councils deliver…
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Link: What is “digital”?
“I tend to (rather crudely) break down what digital transformation could mean into three broad categories: (1) Digital access – taking a paper or telephone based process and whacking it online with an e-form (quick to do, few benefits except a bit of convenience for web savvy users); (2) Digital efficiency – taking that process…
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Link: Dell EMC Merger Required Its Own Digital Transformation Program
“It was not like we went from three days to two days to one day. We went from three days to 18 minutes immediately. It was like flipping a light switch.” Original source: Dell EMC Merger Required Its Own Digital Transformation Program
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Link: How to build a business case for DevOps transformation
“Here are a few signs that your company should consider transitioning to DevOps: Does it take a long time to deliver features? Are features underutilized? Do you not know the utilization of features? Do you have downtime during maintenance or deployment windows? Do your customers tell you your site is down before you know it?…
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The third stage of Vineet’s transformation revolves around the value zone – the part of any business where true customer value is created. In a services organisation like HCL was this in HR? Was this in the financial modelling team? Was this in the manager’s office? No, for HCL the true customer value was created…
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