IT Departments Try To Avoid Getting "Ubered"

[DEAD7]

Fortune 500 companies and longstanding corporate giants are losing to startups that are born digital because they can't keep up or they refuse to acknowledge the ways that technology is changing both business and consumer preferences. Getting "Ubered" is now one of the biggest threats to traditional IT departments as the growing number of unicorns like Airbnb, Spotify, Square, and others take over the economy and win the hearts and minds of increasingly mobile, always-on consumers. In this article, nine tech leaders from large companies talk about how they have had to change their approach in order to keep pace and avoid getting disrupted by the next big thing around the corner.

 

[Vandelay]

Not sure how they are a threat to traditional IT.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Not sure how they are a threat to traditional IT.

Exactly...

 

[Jello Biafra]

That entire list reads like business marketing buzzword bullshyt.

I especially call bullshyt on this one:

6. Consider moving to DevOps

“I know of a company in the printing industry with a development group that was stuck at the speed of doing two releases a year with a 40-year-old mainframe app that supported 20 other technology platforms. Huge complexity, and hardly market-leading speed. Through DevOps, they were able to move to daily deployments to a user-accepted test environment with a technology deployment lead-time that shrank from 14 days to a day.”

– Gene Kim, Chief Technology Officer, Researcher and Author of "The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win"

 

[Robbie3000]

That entire list reads like business marketing buzzword bullshyt.

I especially call bullshyt on this one:

5. Move at the speed of trust

“One thing you discover quickly in IT is that all the simple problems have been solved. The complex problems are the ones that are most interesting, and complex problems are always contentious. And so building a team that moves at the speed of trust but that truly values candor and differing points of view is the hardest part of being a CIO.”

What the fukk does this even mean?

 

[Data-Hawk]

5. Move at the speed of trust

“One thing you discover quickly in IT is that all the simple problems have been solved. The complex problems are the ones that are most interesting, and complex problems are always contentious. And so building a team that moves at the speed of trust but that truly values candor and differing points of view is the hardest part of being a CIO.”

What the fukk does this even mean?

Just throwing buzzwords around.....Sounds like Mark Zuckerburg. Our CIO was never in IT, he was a laywer....hence one of the reasons I dream about working at an all developer/IT company.