IT industry today faces same issues that aggravated 1990s manufacturing: How can we take a cue from history?

Until the late 1990s, manufacturing reigned as the lifeblood of the global economy -- leading in productivity, employment, growth, and investments across all points of the world. However, once we neared the close of the 20th century, manufacturing found its Achilles heel in the compounded complexity accrued from outdated processes, an over-reliance on human labor that simply couldn’t meet its extreme needs, supply chain disruptions, and rising costs. I fear that today, the information technology industry finds itself at all-too-familiar cross-roads. Why is this? Despite the rapid emergence of generative AI and hybrid cloud, helping to drive innovation across a… [Continue Reading]