1. Denial: We need digital transformation and can build it ourselves. The company begins manual coding of APIs to connect the mainframe to modern applications, but progress is slow. 2. Anger: A hypothesis that the mainframe is an obstacle to innovation followed by a...
I walk into my local Starbucks, ready for my morning coffee, smiling at the absence of the usual line out the door. In fact, the store is almost empty. I pull out my phone to access Starbucks’ handy app to buy my morning coffee. Just open the app, scan my barcode, and...
In 1940, Henry Ford famously said, “Mark my word: a combination airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile, but it will come.” In 1964, Isaak Asimov surmised that we’d all be zipping around in flying cars by 2014, using jets full of compressed air to...
The recently announced merger between BB&T and SunTrust is all about achieving scale in order to compete, something that is often driven by technological innovation. According to the The Wall Street Journal: “Regional lenders are struggling to compete with big...
