What happens to large enterprise software vendors as the workplace becomes “atomized”?
Reading Jim’s post and reflecting on two conversations I had this morning - one with a relatively senior person at a major financial institution who told me that the biggest barrier to adoption for enterprise 2.0 tools in his company may be the fear of a flatter organization, another one with a sales rep from one of the two largest enterprise software companies who was trying to convince me that they now cater to companies like ours, with 2 people, a goldfish, and a virtual network of freelancers - got me thinking about the long term prognosis for large companies in general and the fate of large enterprise software companies in the face of an increasingly “atomized” workplace, or as FAST company said in a recent article - a world of a billion single-person enterprises.
I know…as Larry Keeley says, we always overestimate the amount of change in the short term, but we also underestimate the amount of the change in the long term. I wonder how many large enterprise software companies are thinking about this future…or how many large companies in general for that matter.
WARNING - big changes ahead…
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