@samcharrington @krmarko Watch out because the context in which innovation spreads changes over centuries and going forward it will be dramatically different.
You can already see that a single vendor can now design, produce and distribute every wheel that you could possibly conceive, faster than you.
@samcharrington @krmarko You can try your luck in building a new wheel, and maybe you’ll have the edge for 5 minutes. In the long term, tho, you can only compete if your wheel works better for the customer than the same tool from a vendor that does 1M different wheels.
@samcharrington @krmarko Competition is fundamentally changing in a way it has never changed before.
If your expertise is only in producing a wheel, I’m not sure you’ll stay competitive for long.
Vendors, all of us, will have to evolve into something more mature than tool makers to thrive.
@samcharrington @krmarko The tool vendor will go away. Just a byproduct of infancy.
@krishnan Not in this case. In this case, it’s human nature down to the individual level. There are very precise and deeply researched (in cognitive psychology) dynamics that prevent individuals and groups from embracing a data-driven culture. No tool, alone, can fix that.
@krmarko One day, us vendors will learn that tools alone do nothing particularly effective. For customers to truly return on the investment, you can only sell a bundle made of four indivisible elements:
– tool
– tool training
– operational best practices
– change management activity
@krmarko But, as I often say, the IT industry is still in its infancy.
I could spend *hours* talking about why establishing a culture of data-driven processes and decisions is impossibly hard. No, it has nothing to do with tools availability or maturity. #reinvent2021
@samcharrington @jeffsussna Is it just me or this year product names are at least 2 nouns longer?
Huge step towards unlocking the space industry >
NASA details intent to replace the International Space Station with a commercial space station by 2030 https://t.co/LS5SM93jyR