What if digital stops delivering value?Jonas Söderström • InUse Experience
TDC • Oktober 2014 • Trondheim
Peak IT?Ju
dith
/ Fl
ickr
are we approaching
@jonas_blind_hen
@inuse_swe
#TDConf
twitter
Digital funktion och passion
Stockholm • Göteborg • Malmö
FUTURE(Back to the)
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One strong metaphor for
what’s happening:
But let’s get backto the 60’ies
1968: Sweden in 200024 of the most in!uential scientists, entreprenuers
3 months vacation60.000 SEK/month4 hrs working day
60.000 SEK/monthIn 1968 value
499.274 SEK/monthIn 2014 value
Financial Times Oct 26, 2014
Productivity falling
A slowdown in technical progress is the reason usually given for this
progressive deceleration in productivity growth.
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Economist Oct 4, 2014
The s-shaped
curve
Law of diminishing
returns
Antibiotics
Resistance
Motorways
Traffic jams
After 5 years of construction to widen I-405, traffic is slightly
slower than beforeThe "fundamental rule" of traffic. Vox, Oct 23, 2014
Have we reached PEAK IT?
How hard can it be?
””
...for example, a payroll system?
Wrong salaries for 2 yrs.2 757 hrs overtime
Wrong salaries for 1 yrs...
Recently:Three of the biggest
Swedish banksditched efforts to build
new platforms, with total losses of well over 10 billion SEK.
from 145 to 313 click
With new system
Renew weapons license:
mean 2 hrs 52 mWrite report, one case of shoplifting:
Alt 1: Everyone is an idiot
Alt 2: Method is wrong...
... and lean and agile will save us!
Alt 3: Exponentially
increasing complexity
Karolinska University HospitalLibrary, 18 Feb 2014
110 employees
117 systems
The EVIL TWIN of Metcalfe’s law
difference between theory and real-world
results
slowdown, caused by system effects
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BEGINNING OF CURVE
Have we reached PEAK IT?
Government?Bank?
Coolstartup! Disruption!
Digitalisation affords
bureaucracy
”Software is eating the
world”
Everything that eats, also produces
excrement.
No more highways
Build smaller things
New York High Line
Copenhagen bicycle bridge
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