BY BETSY AMY-VOGT – The problems in traditional workplace culture aren’t new. Today’s compartmentalized workplace has its roots in the mechanization and standardization of the industrial revolution, when workers were regarded very differently than they are today.

But the slowness and lack of cooperation and communication brought about by silo’ed departments, top-down management, and poor customer understanding come into sharp focus when held up to the agile autonomous workflows espoused by the DevOps culture.

“The way most companies are set up has a lineage going back a couple of hundred years” said Chris Marsh, research director of workforce productivity and compliance at 451 Research LLC. Marsh spoke with theCUBE to discuss how digital technology is forcing companies to reevaluate their organizational structure. His team’s 2019 report, “Voice of the Enterprise: Workforce Productivity & Collaboration,” focused on the technologies shaping the workplace of the future.

Calling the advances currently underway a “digital revolution” may seem over the top. But it is apt considering the breadth of change new technology is creating, according to Marsh. “[It] is such an interesting time at the moment because a lot of that [traditional culture] is breaking down relatively quickly,” he said. Read On: