By Dick Weisinger
Not everybody buys Gartner’s advise to businesses to try to split up their organizations.
For example, Simon Wardley, researcher for the Leading Edge Forum, said that “let me just reiterate that point. I’m telling you from the experience of having used both bimodal and trimodal forms over the last decade that bimodal is not what you want to do.”
Jason Bloomberg, industry analyst, echoed the same sentiment saying that “Bimodal IT is simply an excuse to keep doing IT poorly… 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 centers filled with ancient legacy monoliths… Bimodal IT recommends maintaining your organizational silos, which is contrary to the entire notion of business transformation… True, I advise executives to know when to optimize, and know when to disrupt – but not in separate silos! ”
Read the entire article at http://formtek.com/blog/bi-modal-it-running-an-it-organization-with-a-split-personality/.
