I think the enterprises of the future will look very different from those of today. Organizations will become leaner and more virtualized as their business processes grow more reliant on ecosystem partners. Process boundaries will transcend a specific entity. Many macroeconomists believe that real shareholder value (and, ultimately, economic growth) will be driven by the speed and quality of innovation. Historically, enterprises have been successful by capitalizing on a disruption (market transition) that plays into […]
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By 2020, businesses that fail to pare their legacy architecture may find their core businesses disrupted by smaller, nimbler companies who have built on SaaS and cloud computing from the ground up. “They will be unencumbered by a legacy of complexity and costly solutions and will be narrowly focused on their core competencies,” said Frank Wander, senior vice president and CIO at Guardian Life Insurance Co. And there you’ll be with your client/server architectures and […]
Thirty five percent of C-level respondents in a global survey have identified significant investments in legacy infrastructure as the reason they are not adopting cloud computing. The survey, the fourth Global Status Report on the Governance of Enterprise IT (GEIT) – 2011, conducted by the non-profit, IT Governance Institute (ITGI) polled 834 executives from 21 countries, divided almost evenly between business executives (CEOs, CFOs and COOs) and IT executives (CIOs and heads of IT). According […]