IDG Contributor Network: Why organizations must act like software companies with agile, devops, APIs and analytics capabilities

It is almost seven years to the day from when Mark Andreesen wrote a signature thesis on why software is eating the world. He wrote it nearly a decade after the internet bubble burst and he defended the growing valuations of technology companies based on increases in broadband access, the relatively low investment required to start a software company, and the increasing ability for companies built on software to disrupt legacy value chains.Then five years ago, Peter Sondergaard declared during