Kill something, then hire cleaners to mop up the blood if you want to build a digital business

Unicorn Fantasy Land!

What a bunch of crap. Fire your CIO, retrain your staff provided they don't leave and good luck finding skilled replacements. Play a heavy fine to exit from your existing outsourced without being able to find a competent replacement. Good luck getting funding when the #1 goal is to reduce costs. Change the governance model while getting buy in from the business units and auditors.

Oh and it should take 30-40 years when the average CIO tenure is 3.5 years.

The vendors are rarely the problem. The process and people are. How does CD increase revenue while reducing costs? Cloud vendors are still vendors. Hardware is still hardware that has software run it. Customization has been done because shelfware didn't fill business needs.

Where be the Killer Blow Dealers? Be They Circling in Space?

Is it illegal, and would one be certainly found guilty of actively conspiring to defraud and mislead both minor and major supporters and stakeholders, and be classed as something of a master criminal enterprise, to run a business which was in debt, and consistently incurring increasing debt, and whose working costs greatly exceeded income to generate a deficit for production of further massive losses?

If a current state has existing governance mechanisms which are bad for digital business ….. is the barrier to becoming digital, existing governance mechanisms with criminal master enterprises?

Future digital states surely will not host such corrupt and criminal barriers, and it is monumentally stupid to imagine that they either could or they would choose such a retrograde path into the future.

Is your exclusive national executive and international administration system running an analogue master criminal enterprise scam and bankrupting business venture, and be it well worthy of Killer Blow Dealers immediate undivided attention?

Fixing the Bigger Picture with AI Beta will easily generate a wholly New Orderly World Order... and in an Almighty Flash Crash Bash too if you are not careful nor fully Properly Prepared with Positive Planning to Prevent Piss Poor Performance Permitting Prime Prize Penetration and Perfect Private Protocolled Pursuit of Public Parametered Projects and Pirate ProgramMING Presentations alike.

I literally have no idea what any of this means.

And yet can tell you with certainty, this is why you'll spend millions of dollars and still get hacked.

Playing Gartner Bullshit Buzzword Bingo

I just need 'Synergy' for a full house....

The underlying issue is

That the transformation cannot be simple "an IT problem". Many businesses resist IT led change as it changes (improves) the way they work but is seen as unnecessary disruption by IT.

You can have your agile/devops/everything as a service buzzwords but none of it is any use if the business insists the corporation will shut down if you don't keep that last unupgradable 2003 application going, or the industry led functionality changes are not "how my team works".

As ever, not addressing the right problem, but ensuring you have technology to blame...

So this is leadership

“The first people to hire when doing digital businesses is cleaners,” Kyte said, “because there will be blood on the floor and the ceiling. If you do it nicely, it will fail. The sword of leadership and grit is needed.”

If you were leading an army this way you'd soon find yourself shot by your own troops, if they could find you.

Snake Oil

More snake oil from the company that pioneered its use in the fleecing of out-of-their-depth IT management.

If you listen to these clowns you deserve everything you get.

Decades of investment

Those investments were mostly in silos and meant that no organisation can honestly say it consciously designed the state it's in today. Kyte describes that state as “a great stinking dunghill of complexity” that inhibits efforts to increase the pace of change.

And guess what Mr Kyte, quite whilst it may not be suitable for the latest agile fad, more often than not it actually just plain old works. When it breaks, there is good change you know because there is good change control in place.

Not to mention that not all applications are suitable for agile development. Newsflash, not every application is some festering pile of java on a website.

That is not to say that there isn't room for improvement. Of course there is, but agile may not be the silver bullet.

wow

'"“The first people to hire when doing digital businesses is cleaners,” Kyte said, “because there will be blood on the floor and the ceiling. If you do it nicely, it will fail. The sword of leadership and grit is needed.”'

It sounds as if the Squeegee of Prudence and Patience might come in handy as well, and maybe the Bucket of Lysol.

'Never customise software again, stop building silos and push back against those who say they're necessary.'

Never customize software again? Because vanilla SAP/Peoplesoft/Dynamics Just Works?

Very bad plan.

Xerox tried the services concept many years ago. In 1998 they almost died. They were 60 days away from closure.

Lest we forget

Lets not forget that Gartner are the guys who brought us all that Bi-Modal BS!!