Talent Transformation A companies success will be measured by their investment in talent transformation “There’s no way through this problem other than education and we have a long way to go” — Marc Andreessen If software is eating the world, then the forward progress of companies is directly related to their ability to develop software effectively. — Joe Emison — and many businesses are being served for dinner by the fast and furious who leverage Amazon Web Services’ ever-expanding infrastructure and platform services. Software is eating the world The adoption of cloud is now mainstream, and AWS makes it possible for progressive companies to focus on their marketplace differentiators — while AWS does the heavy-lifting. body[data-twttr-rendered="true"] {background-color: transparent;}.twitter-tweet {margin: auto !important;} Enterprise like are using #AWS in meaningful ways to focus on differentiators and not the heavy lifting #AWSSummit @CapitalOneDevEx @ajassy — @drewfirment function notifyResize(height) {height = height ? height : document.documentElement.offsetHeight; var resized = false; if (window.donkey && donkey.resize) {donkey.resize(height); resized = true;}if (parent && parent._resizeIframe) {var obj = {iframe: window.frameElement, height: height}; parent._resizeIframe(obj); resized = true;}if (window.webkit && window.webkit.messageHandlers && window.webkit.messageHandlers.resize) {window.webkit.messageHandlers.resize.postMessage(height); resized = true;}return resized;}twttr.events.bind('rendered', function (event) {notifyResize();}); twttr.events.bind('resize', function (event) {notifyResize();});if (parent && parent._resizeIframe) {var maxWidth = parseInt(window.frameElement.getAttribute("width")); if ( 500 < maxWidth) {window.frameElement.setAttribute("width", "500");}} With every release of new features and services, AWS is creating even more opportunities for companies to enjoy the benefits of _. A_nd for what it’s worth, the opportunities to feast at the table of AWS applies as much to enterprises as it does to start-ups. frictionless innovation Emerging serverless architectural patterns are accelerating the insane pace of innovation, along with the ability for companies to . The endless opportunities are now only limited by your imagination as serverless seamlessly integrates with maturing AWS machine learning and artificial intelligence services such as Polly, Lex, and Rekognition. efficiently disrupt at scale As highlights in , a company’s forward progress is directly related to their ability to effectively develop software — and take advantage of infrastructure and platform services from cloud providers like Amazon Web Services. Joe Emison his series on modern programming practices In the blog, Joe references the famous Wall Street Journal essay published in 2011 by — — that outlines the shift toward an economy dominated by software-based companies. Marc Andreessen Why Software Is Eating the World Most notable in Marc’s essay is the now cliché statement that “every company needs to become a software company” — regardless of your industry. He accurately predicts that companies who fail to embrace the transition should prepare to be disrupted by the next Uber. While most companies are focusing on the bright and shiny aspects of the technology disruption outlined in the essay, very few heard Andreessen’s most important call to action — one that’s tables takes for overcoming the challenges of the technology transition. . Education Overcoming the lack of skills is the most critical — — ingredient for companies to participate in the software revolution. and often overlooked Many people in the U.S. and around the world lack the education and skills required to participate in the great new companies coming out of the software revolution. […] This problem is even worse than it looks because many workers in existing industries will be stranded on the wrong side of software-based disruption and may never be able to work in their fields again. There’s , and we have a long way to go. no way through this problem other than education There’s a simple path to determining the success of a company trying to compete in today’s software-driven marketplace: assess how much they are investing in that focuses on modern software development skills and cloud fluency. a talent transformation program meaningful With over 25% of corporations identifying the lack of as the #1 challenge with cloud adoption, there’s no other way through this problem other than . cloud expertise education And we have a long way to go. Thanks for reading! If you like what you read, hit the ❤ button below so that others may find this. You can follow me on Twitter .

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