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Corporate archeology

Corporate archeology

- As you'll recall, I described organizations as a natural product of their history. What I mean by that is, as organizations naturally grow, expand, acquire, and evolve, they inherit complexity. They do this in order to support the business as it grows, often, by implementing systems, software, processes, and teams where necessary. What results is often a spaghetti of systems and processes that consume a great deal of time to maintain and support. What comes to mind are immense enterprise applications that are often pulling from even older mainframe systems, are altered by modular bolt-on applications, enhanced by necessary homegrown plug-ins and patches, all to support inefficient workflows that have evolved organically over the years. And now some or all of this is being combined with cloud apps or migrated into the cloud to keep up with this new trend in enterprise IT. If any of that sounds familiar, rest assured you…

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