“Unless you’ve found an extraordinary new way to deliver your service or product, racing to be the cheapest probably means that you’re not investing sufficiently in change. When you’re the cheapest, you’re not promising change. You’re promising the same, but cheaper.”

Seth Godin

“Unless you’ve found an extraordinary new way to deliver your service or product, racing to be the cheapest probably means that you’re not investing sufficiently in change. When you’re the cheapest, you’re not promising change. You’re promising the same, but cheaper.”

Seth Godin

Did you ever wonder why IT vendors push tools (the what) really hard but they are almost completely absent when it’s time to offer best practices (the how)?
That’s because it’s easier to sell a new tool designed to support untested theories rather than prove those theories first.

Did you ever wonder why IT vendors push tools (the what) really hard but they are almost completely absent when it’s time to offer best practices (the how)?
That’s because it’s easier to sell a new tool designed to support untested theories rather than prove those theories first.

“We built this new tool to help you implement this new approach to work”

“Does it work?”

“We don’t know. Our plan is to convince the entire industry to use it and see what happens in 10 years.”

“We built this new tool to help you implement this new approach to work”

“Does it work?”

“We don’t know. Our plan is to convince the entire industry to use it and see what happens in 10 years.”

And all of this, as I said multiple times, it’s not “the company”. It boils down to one or more people that have the idea.

It’s totally fine and that’s how innovation emerges, but everybody should always remember that new approaches are not The Truth. They are ideas from a guy.

And all of this, as I said multiple times, it’s not “the company”. It boils down to one or more people that have the idea.

It’s totally fine and that’s how innovation emerges, but everybody should always remember that new approaches are not The Truth. They are ideas from a guy.

@rbergin It depends on the operational framework that you have established for your org.

Everybody raves about “immutable infrastructure”. It’s an amazing concept, in theory. In practice, it requires iron-fist discipline to work at scale. I don’t know anybody with that discipline.

@rbergin It depends on the operational framework that you have established for your org.

Everybody raves about “immutable infrastructure”. It’s an amazing concept, in theory. In practice, it requires iron-fist discipline to work at scale. I don’t know anybody with that discipline.