I watched over several decades the progress of the IT department's evolutions.

I was thinking about writing an article about my findings on the topic today.

In general, there are two categories of how the departments are structured. One hire chefs who can cook anything from the available ingredients, and the other has a massive phonebook with many restaurants.

Who do you trust more? Who knows how to cook end-to-end and can cook anything from the available ingredients, or who can order food with the same skill levels as a mail delivery guy?

There is a perception that hiring a chef is expensive! But find the overall results. For me the best kind of this comparison is the Amazon Example:

If Amazon would use the same profit for eCommerce nobody would use it, but hype is a great empowerment in IT.

I think there is a space for cloud, but most of the organizations looking in the wrong direction. It can solve temporary resource problems such POC projects, but not financially sustainable for long run.

More and more companies waking up from the Jedi mind trick: