Mutable (Trend-Opinion) - Bloor Research

DevOps Orchestration - the Morpheus tool integration platform looks interesting

13th September 2018
David Norfolk

Automation of software service delivery links your tools with software APIs – giving you a “software-defined infrastructure” and the Morpheus platform is a good basis for this.

KPIs for Innovation - Managing Innovation for the Mutable Business

30th August 2018
David Norfolk

Choosing KPIs is important, they can be financial or non-financial, or composite KPIs that you can’t measure directly may be better indicators than simple KPIs.

IB(No)M - IBM underplays the important value and differentiators their hardware architectures still provide

30th July 2018
Paul Bevan

IBM have the skills, knowledge & experience to help CIOs re-architect their IT to achieve mutability. The M in IBM remains a critical element in their offer to their customers.

Future starting here? - Looking at DevOps processes beyond simple software development

7th June 2018
David Norfolk

The recent TSB migration debacle was more than an Ops project and had Dev, testing and customer impacts. In these days of Ops/Dev collaboration, should it have been run as a DevOps-style process – or was it run “DevOps in name only”?

Data visualisation for managing assets - an important part of the Mutable Business

4th May 2018
David Norfolk

Interesting short article on visualising your assets based on architectural-style viewpoints: Better Configuration Management CMDB Data Visualization for Free.

NIS – another EU Directive to follow - it's an attempt to provide a more secure IT platform for everyone

3rd May 2018
David Norfolk

While you are all (I hope) thinking about GDPR, just a brief heads-up on another EU initiative that will also still be important post-Brexit. The NIS Directive is the first piece of EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity. It provides legal measures…

Modernisation for Mutable - in large enterprises with effective Legacy

2nd May 2018
David Norfolk

As companies like TSB are currently finding out, “rip and replace” modernisation of high-capacity business-critical systems is high risk.

More on non-European companies and GDPR - It’s more than the letter of the regulation

24th April 2018
David Norfolk

GDPR is very emphatically about managing privacy with the interests of the data subjects at heart. It is not about encouraging lazy people to sign away their rights.

American companies and GDPR - can one take “GDPR compliance” at face value?

20th April 2018
David Norfolk

The bottom line, I think, is that (regardless of GDPR and its jurisdiction) a mutable company can’t afford to have a breakdown of trust with its customers and other stakeholders – as Facebook is discovering. GDPR may simply be a catalyst for bringing data-related trust issues to the surface.

Change platforms - change comes from the grass roots

18th April 2018
David Norfolk

David Norfolk comments on an interesting article, for emerging Mutable Businesses, from McKinsey.