Digital is a strategic competency, not just another channel for your company marketing message. How can your company use the nature of Open Source as a strategy to cope with change.

1. Open source for enterprise
Architecting Digital Change: Use open source as a strategy to cope
with constant change
26 June 2014

2. 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.

3. Old reactions to open source
1. Security
2. Stability
3. Supportability
4. Availability

4. Topics looking forward
1. Change challenge
2. Understand the background to open source – beyond “free”
3. Where open source fits into the change challenge

5. The change challenge

6. Internet and web a huge disruptive force
for change
The change challenge

7. Needs to be recognised that digital is a
strategic competency, rather than another
channel
The change challenge

8. Ignoring this subtle difference is critical
The change challenge

9. The change isn’t going to slow down
The change challenge

10. 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

11. Where does open source fit?

12. 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”

13. Open source built on change
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”

14. Changing software wasn’t always easy
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”

15. No scope to play, just use as intended
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”

16. Geographically limited
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”

17. The internet has come a long way
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”

18. Against all odds.... and conventional
wisdom and economics
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”

19. 60% of all web services run on
open source
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”
Source: http://w3techs.com

20. Now there are huge communities
changing & developing based on needs
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”

21. So in a quickly changing world,
community driven software can only be
good
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”

22. Apple making noises about ‘open’
Understand the background to open source beyond “free”

23. Where open source fits in to the
change challenge

24. It’s no sliver bullet to these challenges,
but it can help
Where open source fits in to change challenge

25. There’s organisational agility and then
there’s agile projects
Where open source fits in to change challenge

26. Project agility – Change the way you run
a project
Where open source fits in to change challenge

27. Traditional way of planning a tech project
Where open source fits in to change challenge

28. A large capital investment needs a larger
plan for a greater return
Where open source fits in to change challenge

29. Traditional technology planning doesn’t
work
Where open source fits in to change challenge

30. Take away the price tag.....
Where open source fits in to change challenge

31. You can discover what is needed by
trying it and proving it works, bit by bit
Where open source fits in to change challenge

32. 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

33. Get access to a huge amount of creative:
349 different modules using Twitter
Where open source fits in to change challenge

34. All of the above create project flexibility
Where open source fits in to change challenge

35. Create organisational agility?
Where open source fits in to change challenge

36. 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

37. Use projects to discover, as well as to
deliver something
Where open source fits in to change challenge

38. Flexibility needs skills
Where open source fits in to change challenge

39. 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

40. 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