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IT Departments Try To Avoid Getting "Ubered"
StewBeans writes: Fortune 500 companies and longstanding corporate giants are losing to startups that are born digital because they can't keep up or they refuse to acknowledge the ways that technology is changing both business and consumer preferences. Getting "Ubered" is now one of the biggest threats to traditional IT departments as the growing number of unicorns like Airbnb, Spotify, Square, and others take over the economy and win the hearts and minds of increasingly mobile, always-on consumers. In this article, nine tech leaders from large companies talk about how they have had to change their approach in order to keep pace and avoid getting disrupted by the next big thing around the corner.
Please, "Ubered", no. Not only no, and also no, but it sounds like a noise I once made in between too many bratwursts with too much mustard and too much sauerkraut, and way way way too much beer. I think the beer was lagered, which would make a sort of onomatopoetic sense, if it led to ubering.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
But even a massive advertising agency couldn't do it for, say, Bing.
I don't know...I had spicy tacos last night and took a giant Bing this morning. Then my Binging car wouldn't start so I had to walk to work, and wouldn't ya know it, I stepped in a big ol' pile of Bing.
"BING! BING! BING!" I screamed, as I tried to scrape the Bing off my shoes. My boss, who is a total Binghole yelled at me for being late, so I told him to Bing off. I got fired and now I feel like Bing.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Libertarian spotted! Oh boy, let me bust out the libertarian jokes. Why did the libertarian cross the road? I have no desire to answer that. Am I being detained?
Road? Paid by public funds, right? The so-called "road" was created by nothing more than theft-by-force of the hard earned money of businesses and individuals. I therefore reject such communist notions and refuse to recognise "road". Furthermore I shall... *SPLAT*
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