Big data, cloud, mobility, and why IT needs to move at the speed of business

August 25, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: Ian Moyse.

“We change our behaviour when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change” – Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend Successful businesses require the ability to change and increasingly to adapt quickly, to be agile to new approaches and technologies and be flexible to the needs of the business and customers.

We are at the wake of monumental change and how businesses service and engage with the customer and employee alike are under upward pressure from users and customers who are driving a higher expectation on their provider where brand loyalty can wane quicker than ever before. Of the Fortune 500 firms in 1955, come 2015 89% of the list has changed, having either gone bankrupt, merged, or exist but have fallen from the Fortune 500…

The Fortune 500 is fast becoming the Digital 500 with new world entrants fast displacing the legacy firms. Unicorns like Salesforce, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Uber and the like are showing how business models are innovating and enabling disruption of the status quo more quickly than we have ever seen before. In July 2015, six companies accounted for 53% of the Nasdaq’s $664 billion market value (Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, Netflix and Gilead), five being high tech innovative firms and four of these who have been around on average 17 years)…

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