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Teaching an Elephant to Dance

Intentional evolution across teams, processes, and applications

Published April 2019
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Over time, enterprise applications tend to devolve into the stereotypical monolith — opaque, cumbersome to update, and slow to incorporate new functionality. Yet, these enterprise applications also provide the core business and revenue-generating operations. This is the elephant in the room.

That elephant can be trained into something nimble and transformative, as long as there is a clear vision of what that final state should be. This is digital transformation as an evolutionary process. There is no one ideal outcome; each evolutionary path reflects the unique purpose and personality of the organisation itself.