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6 Surprising Reasons IT is Changing
Or at least as we know it..
Disclaimer: This is simply a prediction, but I think may be very beneficial for the following reasons.
Software and technological agility have been the driving force for several industry disruptions. In the latest disruptions, we have witnessed an era starting with the dethroning of massive companies such as Sears and K-Mart at the advent of online shopping and speeding up of the innovation cycle. This has morphed into the emergence of Amazon becoming a significant retail player dominating the online retail, Uber, and it's taking over the taxi industry and Airbnb in the hotel and rental property space.
These are all game-changers, and a lot of it has to do with software and technology. Marc Andreessen has a pivotal post on this topic here which he further explains the importance of software.
Hence this cycle of disruptions has been driven by the philosophies of being nimble and continue to speed up.
