Member Question:
Almost 10 years ago, Bill Gates of Microsoft wrote a book titled "Business @ The Speed of Thought" where he laid out his vision for how organizations should utilize technology to become more responsive, adaptive, agile, etc. Specifically he drew an analogy between an organization's IT infrastructure and living beings Autonomic Nervous System. Now, reading this book over again, I'm struck by a perception that even now most organizations still do not have the level of IT integration that Gates speaks of. So my question(s) to you is this: Does your enterprise / organization have real-time reporting and notification of all important data? Are you able to react and adapt in a very agile way, thanks to your IT systems? Or are you actually constrained in your ability to adapt, by those very systems? Would you say your organization really has a "digital nervous system?"
I'm curious to see if my perception - that there will be a lot of "NO" answers here, is really valid. Additionally, where answers are "no," I'd be interested to hear about the reasons why.
My Response:
I recently answered a question regarding the "future of enterprise software modeling" which relates to the core elements of your question.
Here is an excerpt from that answer.
