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The path to the future takes us from products (and complexity) to solutions (and simplicity). The overall concept of simplicity involves some initial change.
Computer software products are too complex today. You know they are too complex because the various captive services organizations are growing not shrinking (and providing direct services as well as strategic services which in the end is bad for them and the market but that is for another day).
Given the complexity of products today you can imagine that a solution built on complex products is by de-facto reality even more complex. But the products of today fall short of the real business need that drives what people need to consume.
Now the other side of today’s products and their overall complexity is the movement towards mobility and the reality of more simplified solution overall in the mobile space.
This results in a market that is balanced on a single point (complexity) and pivoting on the point around the end state (products don’t as is meet customer needs).
Simplistic mobile solutions bound to complex enterprise solutions resulting in unhappy IT professionals and unhappy customer’s (both of IT and the product companies).
The search and even quest for simplicity will drive the next 2-3 years of computing and computing technology. The reality of the old song “Que Sera, Sera” no longer applies. We need to focus the computer software industry on creating simple products that result in “less complex” solutions.
Can it happen? Is anyone listening?
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