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Why Digital Transformation is like putting ‘lipstick on a pig”…
It cannot hide the ugly organisation, and the broken business processes underneath…
Launching Digital Transformation project is like reaching for the stars not knowing if you will be alive when you get there…
I know what people think when I challenge the Digital Transformation (“DT”) bandwagon, the new age tool, the prevailing mantra…because so many people love it, make a living from it and claim it works.
I might add its mainly consultants that make a lot of cash from propagating the ‘emperors new clothes’ claiming transformative potential, while selling numerous assessments and studies, mapping what is already there, and then recommending a different colour lipstick…
I’m affriad I just don’t see it. I started my 40 year tech career in mainframes in 1970's, then distributed, to desktop, to internet mobile. I’ve seen tech evolving and I am now work on what comes next. The next era— quantum computing, biological computing and dare I say Web3. I am also not a consultant, I’m a business operator, I create new disruptive business models designed at scale to scale.
My thesis comes down to fundamentals of computing and how it (Information Technology) processes common software…
