Chapter 7

Supporting innovation

Innovation means many things to many people. To some innovation is an impossible challenge; to others innovation is so deep-rooted into their DNA that they are considered mad scientists! In transforming datacenters and driving toward the efficiencies of the promises of the cloud, you have no choice but to innovate. In this chapter, we discuss what it means for an organization to support practices, patterns, and behaviors to support innovation and engrain it into their cultural and technological DNA.

Breaking paradigms

Fourth Coffee has a lot of problems—as most enterprises do. The problems range across culture and technology. For Fourth Coffee to be successful, things need to change. Often in the past, when the ...

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