{"id":5832,"date":"2014-04-14T06:44:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2014-04-14T06:44:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T12:44:47","slug":"why-software-is-eating-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5832","title":{"rendered":"Why Software Is Eating The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/stevedenning\/2014\/04\/11\/why-software-is-eating-the-world\/\">Steve Denning<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And after it\u2019s happened, there\u2019s no going back. Capitalism\u2019s process of creative destruction then takes over: knowledge can\u2019t be put back in the bottle. Once it is known that it is possible to operate in this better, faster way, it will inexorably become the new normal. Customers will expect nothing less. Except where government regulation or private monopolies preserve the status quo, firms that don\u2019t adjust over time won\u2019t survive.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Becoming Agile will steadily become a requirement just to stay in business. In effect, for most companies, failure to acquire digital agility will be an existential threat and so, establishing digital agility has become in effect a strategic necessity.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;How practical is it?<br \/>&nbsp;Richard Straub, President of the Drucker Society Europe wrote that \u201cimproving the software in small increments seems to work much better than having a mega update in longer cycles. It seems to work better for all stake-holders \u2013 customers, employees and the investors.\u201d He also had a few more practical questions worth exploring:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Denning: And after it\u2019s happened, there\u2019s no going back. Capitalism\u2019s process of creative destruction then takes over: knowledge can\u2019t be put back in the bottle. Once it is known that it is possible to operate in this better, faster way, it will inexorably become the new normal. Customers will expect nothing less. Except where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5833,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions\/5833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}