Cloud is here to stay, and companies big and small are struggling to adapt. There is no shortage of articles with advice on what to change.
Organizations are living organisms. They are born, they grow and develop, they evolve to a certain size and at some point they dissolve (die) like all other organisms. The question is whether this is just me making fatalistic observations, or if there are fundamental laws at work which truly make these cycles inevitable.
The article referenced above suggests that telecom service providers should own their own destiny, by hiring people with knowledge typically found at vendors today. The thing is that telecom service providers are already full of smart people. The approach of outsourcing certain tasks and responsibilities to external parties is fundamental to achieving scale and sufficient focus on core activities, enabling telecom organizations to specialize and differentiate. To "beat" OTT players like Google and Amazon, trying to become like them isn't the answer. Those new hires would find existing organizational structures with barriers and limitations, most likely the very reasons why some of them left these old shells for newer, greener pastures in the first place.
I see a clash of generations, mature organizations versus relatively new players. Even though the average age of the people working at these organizations may not differ much, their management, structure and agility does. The younger organizations are somehow better adapted to embrace modern technologies known as "Cloud" or "SDN" or "NFV" today.
Is this merely survival of the fittest? Or can we find ways to fundamentally change our existing organizations - if so, what does this proverbial Fountain of Youth look like?
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