In the previous post, I introduced the concept of uncertainty as the unifying main driver of rethinking IT. I described how it breaks the certainty-based value prediction model that most of our acting (not only) in IT is based upon and why so many people and companies have difficulties to accept and adapt to uncertainty.

After a few posts discussing some aspects of software architecture, I would like to continue with the probably most important concept that I see in the world (not only) of IT today: uncertainty.

In the last post, I described how different external drivers (pre-industrial, industrial, post-industrial) lead to different IT working modes and discussed their typical properties.

In a previous post, I discussed pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial markets. It also helps to understand a lot of other developments and problems (not only) in the world of IT. In this post, I will discuss how it affects the IT working mode.

“Digital transformation” is probably one of the most overstressed terms of the last years - not only in IT, but also everywhere else: in the news, the media, every conference, everywhere. You just cannot not escape it. But what makes it really annoying is that most people who talk about it do not seem to have any proper idea what it actually means.