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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.
what have they done?
they've made people think that piecework and pushing all running expenses onto the worker is an acceptable way to hire people
One can spot a leftist by the anti-marketplace sentiments oozing out
The marketplace will always be the final judge - no matter how many interference you leftists have erected in your attempt to block the normal operation of marketplace
No matter how much 'solidarity' you guys have managed to forge amongst the drivers, the paying customers will still have the final say