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<\/a><\/p>\nThe average life of the companies is decreasing. I guess that if we filter this data by IT companies the trend is more aggressive.<\/p>\n
I think about how the IT market is evolving, the impact of massive growth of small companies that are being able to cover market needs, creating new markets and absorbing a piece of the pie of the blue chips IT budgets.<\/p>\n
Last week when I was attending start-up events, people were talking about a product average life of 18 months (for a hardware product), on the software products the life is even less. How can big IT corporations being able to accelerate their speed of product evolution?<\/p>\n
Words as “outsourcing” are legacy terms, but there are still so many companies delivering using that model. There were a generation of people who lost their jobs during the 1998-2005. There is right now a new wave of people suffering the same issue.<\/p>\n
This trend does not only applies to IT, other industries are affected by the same trend. In the continue creative destruction process, there is continuous transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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