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Perhaps the most seemingly-inevitable change occurring now is the digital transformation of the global enterprise landscape . Business models are being rewritten , entire industries grow from a single startup in a matter of months , and those who are unwilling to adapt are disrupted into the Wikipedia subheadings of history . Digital transformation is an avalanche . The impact of a single snowflake on the top of a mountain prompts calamitous chain reactions that propel millions of tons of snow towards the world below .
Alexei Miller , co-founder and Managing Director of professional IT services firm DataArt , is someone with the capacity and experience to see the avalanche with clarity . “ Life used to be simple . There was business and there was IT . Business was kind of clueless , but they had the money , and IT had the expertise but none of the money ,” he explains . The resentment-fuelled dichotomy was , Miller recalls , at least predictable . “ Business hated IT , because they were always late or expensive or buggy ; and IT always hated business because it saw business as clueless - unable to appreciate or take advantage of the miracles of technology , or something to that effect ,” he shrugs . “ Whatever .” And so this modern fable continued for many years , with “ everybody happily hating each other .”
SEPTEMBER 2019