I’ve just had an interesting conversation with a couple of DevOps people from IBM, Eric Minick, OM lead for DevOps and James Hunter strategy lead for DevOps. IBM defines DevOps as an “essential enterprise capability for the continuous delivery of software-driven innovation that enables organizations to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback” (see here). We agreed that DevOps was very much a “culture thing” rather than a “technology thing”, although Eric did point out that the Kubernetes container orchestration software is an important enabler, from the IBM point of view. It is what helps one to produce
Digital & Marketing Leadership / Feature / Knowledge Bank
by Kevin Benedict · Published 18th July 2018
I am excited to share my interview with Kevin Cochrane, SAP’s CMO of Customer Experience. SAP, as one of the largest global technology companies, has been in the midst of an impressive level of digital transformation in sales, marketing and customer experiences. They have been deeply involved in supporting GDPR...
CIO WaterCooler / DevOps / Feature / Information Security
by Raj Fowler · Published 17th July 2018 · Last modified 20th July 2018
Do you know that as Superman’s powers are destroyed by Kryptonite, DevOps powers are destroyed by Anti-Patterns – read on.
CIO WaterCooler / Digital Transformation / Feature
by Sandeep Raut · Published 17th July 2018 · Last modified 16th July 2018
Digital Transformation is in full swing now and adopted by almost all the industries to improve the customer experience. But not everyone is sailing smooth. In fact, a majority of Digital Transformation initiatives face resistance to change and remain in the status quo. Change is rarely comfortable, for the majority of organizations...
CIO WaterCooler / DevOps / Digital Transformation / Feature
by Raj Fowler · Published 16th July 2018
“The moment a leader allows himself to become the primary reality people worry about, rather than reality being the primary reality, you have a recipe for mediocrity, or worse. This is one of the key reasons why less charismatic leaders often produce better long-term results than their more charismatic counterparts” Good to Great, Collins
