A study shows the difficulty of successfully shifting from development to commercial deployment of Kubernetes. That is a better ratio than typically is found in general business transformation or information technology change projects, which tend to have success in the 30-percent range.
70 percent failure rates are common for IT efforts. That same ratio also tends to hold for organizational change efforts. The rule of thumb is that 70 percent of organizational change programs fail, in part or completely.
The survey by D2iQ found 42 percent of Kubernetes applications that work in a pre-production phase were actually deployed commercially.
Historically, most big information technology projects fail in some major way, failing to produce expected cost savings or revenue enhancements or even expected process improvements.
Some would argue the digital transformation failure rate is the same. “74 percent of cloud-related transformations fail to capture expected savings or business value, ” say McKinsey consultants Matthias Kässer, Wolf Richter, Gundbert Scherf, and Christoph Schrey.
Of the $1.3 trillion that was spent on digital transformation--using digital technologies to create new or modify existing business processes--in 2018, it is estimated that $900 billion went to waste, say Ed Lam, Li & Fung CFO, Kirk Girard is former Director of Planning and Development in Santa Clara County and Vernon Irvin Lumen Technologies president of Government, Education, and Mid & Small Business.
BCG research, for example, suggests that 70 percent of digital transformations fall short of their objectives.
From 2003 to 2012, only 6.4 percent of federal IT projects with $10 million or more in labor costs were successful, according to a study by Standish, noted by Brookings.
So perhaps Kubernetes applications succeed at a higher rate than for other IT projects: about four out of 10, where bigger projects succeed about three times out of 10.
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