The challenges and limitations of bimodal IT in the distributed future

With digital transformation and cloud adoption accelerating in the last few years, all the corresponding changes that IT organizations are implementing to support this has added new unforeseen complexities that bimodal IT is not built to handle. One aspect that was highlighted by many organizations was that bimodal IT is not new. Irrespective of Gartner creating a model and guidelines, many organizations implemented bimodal IT based on the model they were already familiar with by building two separate teams and operations model, which created two incompatible and often rivaling visions and priorities that organizations were trying to get away from in the first place. As early as 2017, International Data Corporation (IDC), in their 2017 CIO outlook, predicted that by 2019, the CIOs who had implemented bimodal IT will accumulate a crippling technical debt, resulting in spiraling complexity, costs, and lost credibility...