Since IT tends to be the point of entry for technical innovation within an enterprise, Kinvey decided to take a look at the impact today’s technology disruptions will have on tomorrow’s IT culture. Those ideas are captured visually, in a slideshow titled ““What’s in the Cards for Enterprise IT Culture?”

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Cloud Stack Spawns Choice Backup Forgotten Internal App Stores
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Inner calling Being radiant Guidance Status quo
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3. Developerization
The “developerization” of
IT pushes technical
decision-making down to
individual contributors
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Inspired by the Hierophant

4. “Internet of Things” Emerges
“The Internet of Things”
and wearable technology
creates hairline fractures
in network security
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Inspired by the Wheel of Fortune

5. Code What You Want
Cloud services allow
developers to pick &
choose what they code
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Inspired by the Star

6. Internal App Stores
Internal “app stores” turn
IT departments into
mixed-platform merchants
for employees
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Inspired by the Hermit

7. Freemium Sinks Hooks into IT
Freemium models shift
from limited features to
limited seats, sinking
hooks into enterprise
before IT takes notice
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Inspired by the Fool

8. Scale not a Consideration
Hyper-elastic infrastruc-
ture eliminates scale as a
consideration
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Inspired by Strength

9. Backup Forgotten
Thanks to personal clouds
& redundancy, we forget
about backup
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Inspired by the Sun

10. Support Shifts to Access Points
Support shifts from
Support shifts from devices to
devices to access points
access points
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Inspired by the Chariot

11. Amorphous HQ
Cloud collaboration
antiquates the concepts of
time and geography,
creating an amorphous
corporate HQ
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Inspired by the Tower

12. Cloud Stack Spawns Choice
Single-vendor suites crack
under the weight of the
Cloud Stack
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Inspired by Judgement

13. Pre-support Emerges
Search engines, AI & IDEs
converge to answer
questions … before they’re
asked
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Inspired by the Magician

14. Messaging Superchannel
“Superchannel” converges
messaging in all formats --
and user, not IT, owns
settings
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Inspired by the World

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Artwork by Jake McKibben
Story by Joe Chernov and Brian Whalley