Ant Evans

London

Data guy

There is an ancient tradeoff between innovation and stability. It is not unique to IT. But the distinction between kids and greybeards in IT departments is not the interesting distinction for us. The interesting distinction is between people who love to solve technical problems and people who love to solve business problems. That conflict will continue. However, every now and again, someone comes along who can do both. In the process, they can make your industry obsolete. The early stages of that process always look like the chaos some of you are describing. So I'd pay chaos a bit more respect.