Is Technology Transformation Reaching Terminal Velocity?

During my relatively short time at EMC at an annual kick-off the key takeaway was “Terminal Velocity”. My fellow EMC Alumni will remember that Vegas trip with rye smiles on your faces I am sure. The direction was get moving and move quickly.

Looking back now it seems a quite sedate way of working. Three months planning the project, the classic sales technique of 6 weeks lead on the build of the equipment and a further three months to install, configure and commission. Yes #snowflakes it did sometimes take over 6 months to deliver an environment for a customer!

So, it got me thinking on my travels. How fast can we really get? Are we reaching terminal velocity? Being able to deliver a complete infrastructure in minutes on a platform of a customer choice is now essential for advanced businesses. I am sure that you can see clients markets just disappearing in not years or months, but days and even hours if they are not quick enough to react to a market.

One client of Melius Group recently delivered a full application suite from business idea to a live fully functioning system in 6 weeks and all under the controls of ISO27001. I was impressed, but can it be done any quicker? The platform was the easy part and deployed in under ten minutes some to a public cloud and some to an on-premise solution.

We are blessed in technology to be in an industry which is relentlessly marching forward. No chance

to pause, take stock or you will be left behind and very quickly. First to market should take 60% before any competitor arrives. I personally absolutely revel in it. I wake up (for those who know me) very early and bounce through day. Not enough hours.

Months to deploy are over. Minutes is the only thing Melius clients now expect and understand. #m5sk8s #m5sjointheevolution