By Solinea
When it comes to adoption of these new and fast changing pieces, we recommend that the organization incubate the concept, drawing from multiple disciplines within the existing organization, 
leveraging outside experts to accelerate the knowledge gathering, building quick and iterative pilots to demonstrate the success of these concepts/technologies, defining metrics (KPI’s) that show executives hard, tangible improvements, and then roll out the iterated, proven concepts to the rest of the organization. This will take months, it will not happen overnight.
This approach helps enterprises move towards “mode 2” and also takes “mode 1” along, without leaving it behind, in Gartner parlance. Our opinion—and indeed, that of anyone who has successfully guided an enterprise to agile—is that dividing IT into one bucket labeled “stuff that works” and another labeled “stuff that might be better one day” is dangerous.
I’m not alone in my opinion about the dangers of Bimodal IT. Bernard Golden, Jason Bloomberg, and Mark Campbell each have instructive views on the topic, all of which precede Donna’s keynote in Austin.
While mine is an opinion forged in the furnace of building agile infrastructures and teaching organizations how to use it, you might have a different take. Would love to hear your take on Bimodal IT.
Read the entire article at http://solinea.com/blog/gartners-mode-1-mode-2-dangerous-thinking
