By Ted Smillie
However, the Gartner approach has its critics. Probably the most forthright is Jason Bloomberg, who wrote an article Beware the Dangers of Bimodal IT in Cortex Newsletter October 12, 2014. This was just after the Gartner Symposium /ITexpo in Orlando, where Gartner had assured Participants that Bimodal IT is the way to go. Jason disagrees: 
“To which I say: balderdash! The brilliant minds at Gartner – and any other consultant towing (sic) the Bimodal IT line, for that matter – are telling their clients what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. Bimodal IT is simply an excuse to keep doing IT poorly.”
Bearing in mind that Jason, who is President of Intellyx and author of The Agile Architecture Revolution, has his own axe to grind in terms of promoting the Intellyx agile digital transformation, his Cortex Newsletter article is highly readable, informative and makes a strong case for “The Intellyx Take: What will Transformed “Traditional IT” Look Like?”
Read the entire article at http://qesp.org/articles/bimodal-it-debate-heats
