The Cost of Time
The Agility Bubble is measured in two dimensions:
cost and time. Direct costs can be controlled and
managed; however, total monetary investments will
range greatly depending on the complexity of the
applications. Specifically, the older the apps and the
more entangled they are with other applications and
databases, the less likely the cost of cloud adoption
can be justified. However, straight-line TCO and ROI
calculations will probably take a back seat to the
larger, more critical issue of time.
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Speed is the new currency of an organization. Freed
from the burden of legacy infrastructure, systems
and processes, agile new competitors pop up like
prairie dogs on a Kansas farm. They move faster, have
access to like technologies and lack the process
sludge clogging global IT. That’s why technology
investment is not the antidote. The cure is a cultural
revolution – from the inside out – that turns over the
status quo and reshapes people and processes so
they can respond rapidly to market conditions.