Your system is “working fine”—Really?

Here’s the problem with existing IT systems that “work fine”. When you suddenly need to find new ways of working, you can’t!

Heavily customized, on-premise system just aren’t as agile as modern cloud infrastructures. You have to say “no” more often to changes the business wants, and it takes longer to implement every change.

In every industry I talk to, business models are changing: moving from selling things to selling things + connected services, and more subscription and shared-risk pricing. And you won’t necessarily get to decide when you need to change as new competitors take advantage of the new opportunities.

Will you be able to react fast enough when that happens? What’s the ROI of being able to avoid the next steamroller in your industry?

And this ties back to the previous post on ROI calculations: just because it’s hard to calculate the value of not being run over, doesn’t mean the value isn’t real!