What a Great Time to be “In” Tech!
3 Apr 2009
Listening to Amazon present earlier this week, my mind wanders to his comment that 70% of IT effort is on non-differentiating work.
I’m an explored who’s turned to lost shipwrecks at the bottom of the ocean as the final frontier. All the “easy” stuff was discovered years ago by Columbus and his pals.
With 70% of all IT efforts “unexplored territory” for IT optimization and improved alignment with the business it’s an awesome opprtunity to make an impact.
(Written from my iPhone using the WordPress mobile app while waiting for my flight to pushback.)
Apr 05, 2009 @ 07:30:25
And that’s a throwdown for the IT community.
Regards,
Sal.
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Salvatore Saieva
Apr 09, 2009 @ 22:00:42
Dave,
that’s a staggering number. I don’t doubt it, but I’m wondering where you got it from? I would love to be able to site a source when giving it to people. Is there something more than Amazon?
Looking forward to seeing more insights,
Andy
Apr 15, 2009 @ 14:43:08
Andy,
I heard it from the Amazon guy… who I believe was talking about their own internal analysis of the things they were doing at Amazon. The speaker was Dr. Werner Vogels (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer), you might try to find him in the cloud and ask him. Sorry I can’t be more specific.
I do believe there is lots and lots of opportunity in this area though, and if I weren’t so happily employed (that’s the standard disclaimer required by Progress) I would consider consulting in this area, and figuring out a way to take a percentage of the money I save clients.
David