open source for enterprise: architecting digital change
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Open source for enterpriseArchitecting Digital Change: Use open source as a strategy to cope with constant changeApril 18, 2023
A little bit about me
David Burgess, UK CEO at Reading Room
12 years experience at Reading Room using open source and proprietary software. Including some of the UK’s most prominent, secure and high traffic sites on an open platform.
Old reactions to open source
1. Security
2. Stability
3. Supportability
4. Availability
Topics looking forward
1. Change challenge
2. Understand the background to open source – beyond “free”
3. Where open source fits into the change challenge
The change challenge
Internet and web a huge disruptive force for change
The change challenge
Needs to be recognised that digital is a strategic competency, rather than another
channel
The change challenge
Ignoring this subtle difference is critical
The change challenge
The change isn’t going to slow down
The change challenge
How do we cope with this?
1. We have to recognise we can’t plan for change
2. Need to embrace change as a constant factor
3. Don’t plan for change in your organisation, plan for your organisation to change
The change challenge
Where does open source fit?
The fact that open source is free is great, but there is more to it than that
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
Open source built on change
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
Changing software wasn’t always easy
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
No scope to play, just use as intended
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
Geographically limited
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
The internet has come a long way
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
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Against all odds.... and conventional wisdom and economics
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
60% of all web services run on open source
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
Source: http://w3techs.com
Now there are huge communities changing & developing based on needs
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
So in a quickly changing world, community driven software can only be
good
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
Apple making noises about ‘open’
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
Where open source fits in to the change challenge
It’s no sliver bullet to these challenges, but it can help
Where open source fits in to change challenge
There’s organisational agility and then there’s agile projects
Where open source fits in to change challenge
Project agility – Change the way you run a project
Where open source fits in to change challenge
Traditional way of planning a tech project
Where open source fits in to change challenge
A large capital investment needs a larger plan for a greater return
Where open source fits in to change challenge
Traditional technology planning doesn’t work
Where open source fits in to change challenge
Take away the price tag.....
Where open source fits in to change challenge
You can discover what is needed by trying it and proving it works, bit by bit
Where open source fits in to change challenge
You can afford to play, innovate and test within your project because the cost of
change is lower
Where open source fits in to change challenge
Get access to a huge amount of creative:
349 different modules using Twitter
Where open source fits in to change challenge
All of the above create project flexibility
Where open source fits in to change challenge
Create organisational agility?
Where open source fits in to change challenge
Be ready to start a project:Being able to start a project tomorrow
because of open access to tech is liberating
Where open source fits in to change challenge
Use projects to discover, as well as to deliver something
Where open source fits in to change challenge
Flexibility needs skills
Where open source fits in to change challenge
Project agility and organisational flexibility
will mean that there will be a rise in the use of open source in an Enterprise
environment
Where open source fits in to change challenge
3 key points to takeaway
1. Use the nature of open source as a strategy to cope with constant change
2. Understand the greater value in the nature of open source software than just the lack of a price tag.
3. Use open source to help create organisational agility
