By Richard McCann
Does Innovation = Risk?
“In digital business, you must change your relationship with risk,”says Tina Nummo, a Gartner VP. “Treat your ability to manage specific risks as a competency and capability. Accepting risk is okay; ignoring risk is tragic.”
But the so-called ‘safe’ reliance on only traditional ‘Mode 1’ is now itself a risk, points out industry analyst and author of ‘The Agile Architecture Revolution’, Jason Bloomberg:
“If the business world wasn’t in a constant state of change, then perhaps leaving slow, traditional IT to its own devices would be the low-risk option,” says Mr Bloomberg. “The business world is in a perennial state of flux, and the ever-increasing sophistication of technology is only accelerating the velocity and diversity of such change. Transformation is all around us – even in the dusty old data centres filled with ancient legacy monoliths.”
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