The Digital Information Technology Academy

DIGITAL IT ACADEMY ... UNLIKE CERTAIN E-LEARNING PLATFORMS
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5 reasons to enroll in the Digital IT Academy:

1. Unlike many, we're not big and scattered. Rather, we're focused on what matter to consultants and small and medium-sized businesses: hashtag , hashtag , and hashtag .

2. Unlike many, we don't confuse clients with useless jargon. Rather, we favor an educational approach, clarify Digital Transformation, DevOps, and Cloud key concepts and their whys and wherefores.

3. Unlike many, we don't fill customer heads with complex technical stuff. Rather, we do two things, we give the right information at the right level and provide actionable guidance

4. Unlike many, we don't pretend implementing technology is what matters because we know it's false. Rather, we tell about the hashtag and technology aspects, and teach how to connect them to boost revenue.

5. Unlike many, we don't lump all our subscribers in one basket. We know there are economic and cultural differences. Rather, we arranged our contents and fees in a way that guarantees 1,000% ROI to consultants and businesses in hashtag , hashtag hashtag , hashtag , hashtag .

VISIT AND ENROLL IN THE DIGITAL IT ACADEMY: https://bit.ly/2JkEa56

Interesting insights from Joe McKendrick about where we stand with Digital Transformation
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Lowered Expectations: We're No Further Along With Digital Transformation Than In 2012 Digital transformation has been a 'thing' for several years. Yet, enterprises seem to be spinning their wheels. Were expectations too high to begin with?

Consider DevOps a business capability that fits into your organization. It's a combination of business and IT staff, skills, processes, practices, values, behaviors, tools structured around a value delivery lifecycle.

Having said that, DevOps acts as an event-driven system thought to make the business competitive and profitable. It reacts to two types of events: External and Internal.

External events— Markets and Priorities— set up DevOps instances that is, complete DevOps project teams—staff, skills, processes, practices, values, behaviors, and tools needed to take charge of the market or the business priority events.

Internal events—Develop & Test, Release & Deploy, Monitor & Improve—are triggered once the DevOps instance is set up to orchestrate the delivery of the expected value.

To know more check the following resources:
- Digital Transformation: How DevOps Could Have Revamped Toys R Us (https://bit.ly/2t60muw)
- How to Yield Business Benefits with DevOps Now™. It’s at The Digital IT Academy (https://bit.ly/2tRy2f1).
- My next book, "The DevOps Revolution: The Organization of the Digital Age." Read the summary here: (https://bit.ly/2EivsSY)

Enjoy Summer Vacations!

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NO DOUBT, TODAY'S DEVOPS ISN'T THE FOUNDATION OF THE BUSINESS COMPETITIVENESS
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DevOps proponents, I’m one of them, should be more humble when they discuss the business value of it.
Increasingly surveys, studies, and testimonies question that value. And they’re right.

Does it address the transformation businesses needed to meet their disrupted market challenges? It does not.

Is accelerated software deployment sufficient to compete against Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Walmart? No, it’s not.

Are software development and IT operations the only corporate functions involved in value creation? They’re not.

So, if DevOps can’t help with these, how useful it is? What’s the problem?

The answers in my recent article, « TechRepublic’s Bombshell Survey: A DevOps Fiasco? » (https://bit.ly/2KukmBP). It’s on DevOps(dot)com.

The solution: How to Yield Business Benefits with DevOps Now™. It’s at The Digital IT Academy (https://bit.ly/2tRy2f1).

Enjoy the Wonderful Summer!
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After several hesitations and changes,finally my next book - The IT Organization of the Digital Age - will be on sale as of August 15, 2018.

The ambition is to write a book that is also accessible to non IT professionals. Several topics are addressed:
- the industry disruption impacts on global industries
- the impact on the business, its IT department, and its IT infrastructure
- the pivotal role of DevOps in adapting the business to the new competitive environment
- the structure, processes, practices and technologies of the so-called digital organization
- the perspectives and opportunities of technologies in which it is imperative to invest: Cloud, DevOps, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, connected objects
- UNPRECEDENTED, the digital service development methodology for designing, developing, deploying and managing digital services.

The objective is to offer a sort of manual, a sort of guide that offers the reader the information he needs - strategic, operational, technological - to properly transform his business.

Written in two editions - English and French - the book will be available in print and electronic versions and published in collaboration with Amazon.

To follow the news of book and read his good pages I click the link: https://bit.ly/2EivsSY

Philippe Abdoulaye now contributes as an author to The Digital Transformation People
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How CIOs can reinvent IT with ITaaS - The Digital Transformation People Introducing strategies that will help CIOs take advantage of ITaaS to transform their IT organization into the strategic partner business lines need. In recent years business lines have been going the shadow IT route to achieve their critical objectives, showing there's a real disconnect with IT...

Is TechRepublic's Bombshell Survey Announcing the Next DevOps Fiasco?
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Articles, testimonies, and surveys abound on the issue. Businesses struggle to extract the business value they expect from DevOps.

Is the problem? Or vendors' implementation approach is to blame? Can companies trust vendors and some of their associated thought leaders when they suggest that (sometimes pretend) deploying automation tools is all they need to meet the highly competitive business challenges?

I provide documented answers next friday. It's on The Digital IT Academy's Blog (https://bit.ly/2txcYdw)

Stay Tuned !!!!
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Why 78% of organizations fail to get DevOps right Only 22% of organizations said they have merged their teams for managing infrastructure, operations, and development, according to 2nd Watch.

How Internet of Things (IoT) Changes Competition and Companies from Michael E. Porter
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In this video that I recommend, Harvard's Michael Porter explains the impacts of technology innovations on competition and businesses and the necessity for business leaders to adjust their value chain.

That's a message you definitely need to hear: disrupted markets demands two fundamental things:
- changing your value chain (or your operational model)
- changing your IT infrastructure
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Michael Porter & Jim Heppelmann : how IoT changes competition and companies : Liveworks 2015 Report: http://www.cadplace.co.uk/IoT/How-does-the-Internet-of-Things-change-the-competitive-landscape-for-manufacturing Competition expert, Michael Porter, ...

How to avoid digital downfall: the Toys R Us case from Philippe Adolphe Abdoulaye
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Lessons learned from Toys R Us digital downfall, actionable insights into industry disruption's impacts on businesses and IT, and practical approach to digital strategy, innovation implementation, and digital transformation.

Read it, it's on IDG CIO
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How to avoid digital downfall: the Toys R Us case, part 1 Lessons learned from Toys R Us digital downfall, actionable insights into industry disruption's impacts on businesses and IT, and practical approach to digital strategy, innovation implementation, and digital transformation.

Technology Alone Won't Buy You Happiness -- or Digital Transformation from Joe McKendrick
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It's a lesson that has to keep get driven home again and again: buying and installing all the latest technologies, and thinking it will all magically transform an organization with moribund processes into an overnight dynamo, is misguided -- and expensive -- thinking. That's the problem with "digital transformation" -- it's one of those feel-good terms that suggests enterprise leaders are recognizing that their futures lie in leveraging technology to create and deliver spectacular customer experiences, along with new types of goods and services.

Read it, it's on Forbes Tech
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Technology Alone Won't Buy You Happiness -- or Digital Transformation Digitally successful companies recognize that employees at all levels need to participate – and have confidence – that they are helping to guide change.

Learn How CIOs Use Enterprise Cloud Now to Guarantee Business Revenue:
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Demonstrating leadership at connecting the dots between cloud engineering, business model transformation, and innovation implementation to yield profits is the skill you'll get if you attend the online keynote speech your IT leader peers have been watching for a moment: Transform Your Business with Enterprise Cloud Now™.

Read it at the Digital IT Academy's Blog!!!
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https://digital-it-academy.teachable.com/blog/1756032/enterprise-cloud-training