Are You Ready To Become Obsolete?

[alreadypacked]

Something we have been discussing on here a few times.

Good article on LinkedIn

Are You Ready To Become Obsolete?

How much of the advise do you already follow?

[Troll]

"advice" tut tut

[cojak]

Already on the case - that's my business model (says the ex-BA, now Service Management Expert...)

[KentPhilip]

It says you should talk to experts. "Take them to coffee and just ask them to fill you in"

Which in my case means they'll probably give me a good kicking


Edit: But seriously it is a good article. It is very easy to get complacent, especially if you've been working for years and have built up decent warchest. That and the pressing concern of other interests has caused me to slack off the last few years. Not good.

[alreadypacked]

I am always looking at the 'next big thing' but currently there are so many 'things'. It's hard to know what will disappear and what will survive.

[quackhandle]

I wonder if COBOL programmers wonder about the obsolescence thing.

qh

[quackhandle]

I am always looking at the 'next big thing' but currently there are so many 'things'. It's hard to know what will disappear and what will survive.

Gartner Hype Cycle.

qh

[BlasterBates]

In the 1990's we had Windows, C++, then Java, client server computing, the death of OS2, VMS and AS400, the rise of UNIX, The Internet, SAP, the rise of MOTIF, the death of MOTIF, Objected oriented development, CORBA, SOAP, J2SEE.

In the 2000's nothing much has happened.

[CheeseSlice]

Gartner Hype Cycle.

qh

Digital
I'm being slightly off topic here, but what amazes me is the survival of the word 'Digital', e.g. Digital Marketing and Digital Business. Wasn't this term the big buzzword in the 70s and 80s? I imagine the red digits on an old Sinclair calculator. Given the rate at which marketing and buzzwords keep changing, I'd have thought it would have been thrown into the dustbin of history by now replaced by 'i' (iThings) or 'e' (e-things). In this case it is quite ironic that digital is associated with marketing.

[alreadypacked]

Digital
I'm being slightly off topic here, but what amazes me is the survival of the word 'Digital', e.g. Digital Marketing and Digital Business. Wasn't this term the big buzzword in the 70s and 80s? I imagine the red digits on an old Sinclair calculator. Given the rate at which marketing and buzzwords keep changing, I'd have thought it would have been thrown into the dustbin of history by now replaced by 'i' (iThings) or 'e' (e-things). In this case it is quite ironic that digital is associated with marketing.

Yes, this should have finish off Digital.

In 1977, Ken Olsen, the founder and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, said, "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."