11/8/2023 0 Comments Adapt or perish![]() ![]() To paraphrase Darwin, the winning Cloud vendor won’t be the biggest, or the one with most features. Put simply, does that vendor provide the tools and flexibility needed for you to survive in this new era of digital disruption? Given all that, we believe that the most important aspect of any Cloud vendor for the next ten years will be its ability to be an enabler for adapting to new disruptions, and by not being a roadblock to innovation. Knowing full well that your next decision will have a massive impact on your organization for what may be the most impactful decade in Enterprise software history. “Conversational AI-first will supersede ‘cloud-first, mobile-first’ as the most important high-level imperative for the next 10 years”įor those of us that live in the world of Enterprise software, the big questions are: how will the current Enterprise software vendors deal with this disruption? And what should you do, given that you are probably in the process of selecting a new Cloud vendor. Something completely unthinkable just three years ago.īut, even more important than the Cloud, AI has burst to the forefront of our lives. To the extent that companies like Oracle have now reinvented themselves as Cloud providers. Meanwhile, the Cloud introduced disruption to the Enterprise software market some ten years ago, and organizations have been moving in droves at an ever-increasing pace. In five years the corporate landscape will look very different than it does today. Our world is being turned upside down by technology. Even companies like IBM and GE are showing signs of struggling in this new era. Now we see Walmart as a massive online presence, at the same time Amazon is purchasing Whole Foods. Now compare and contrast that with Netflix, a company built on the ability to rent DVD’s online via snail mail! Their world changed too, but they changed ahead of it, and rebuilt their entire business model. Remember Blockbuster Video? A power house video rental company that could not adapt to the change to an online video consumption world. ![]() Over the years we have seen once great companies that could not adapt fall by the wayside. Wherever you look, large organizations are either reinventing themselves (called self-disruption) or they are struggling to survive. Without doubt we are now entering a new era of digital disruption. This was the core philosophy behind his ground-breaking book, and has been paraphrased often as: adapt or perish. It is the one that is most adaptable to change” “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. From Charles Darwin’s seminal study, Origin of Species: ![]()
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