IDG Contributor Network: The place of apps in the enterprise

The enterprise is changing.

The models our parents and grandparents knew (stability, a job for life, static models) are giving way to change at ever-increasing rates. Agility in terms of organizational products and services is the new default. And for individuals, career changes are almost constant. And mirroring this dynamism is an increasing complexity and variety in terms of the tools that we all use to get our job done. While in generations past office workers had a small choice of tools (an adding machine, a typewriter, a ledger) today sees literally millions of options (Slack versus HipChat, Office 365 versus Google Docs versus Zoho, monolithic versus decoupled).

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