Why Agile Is Eating The World
Steve Denning , CONTRIBUTOR I write about radical management, leadership, innovation & narrative. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Image Wikimedia Commons: Brocken Inaglory Great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. In 2011, Marc Andreessen wrote his famous essay, “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” in The Wall Street Journal, leading to the cliché that “every company needs to become a software company.” (A useful update by Jeetu Patel on the situation in 2016 is here: “ Software is still eating the world .”) In one way, Andreessen’s 2011 article was remarkably prescient. In 2011, IT firms were looked down on by Wall Street. Andreessen was telling Wall Street: “Pay attention! These companies are more valuable than you think they are.” And Wall Street listened. In 2018, the five biggest companies in the world by market capitalization are IT firms: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft. But it turn...
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