A scientific approach to Cloud Computing strategy development
September 11, 2012
Grazed from ZDnet. Author: Gery Menegaz.
For all the enormous, color-coded, multi-tabbed spreadsheets, and the number crunching, and the analysis, it has been suggested that much of today’s strategic planning is contaminated by bias, judgement and opinion. And it most definitely is not scientific.
The authors, in the article Bringing Science to the Art of Strategy, suggest that there is a correlation between the size of the spreadsheet – with larger being better – and the comfort level that executives have in their process…
The process, for me, translates well for the development of a Cloud Strategy. How can organizations be more scientific in their approach to Cloud Computing strategy, or any strategy for that matter?
Organizations need to move beyond simply doing data analysis and strategic planning. The scientific method requires the creation of unique hypothesis that will be rigorously tested. The authors suggest that if you talk to those managers, “you will likely uncover a deeper frustration: the sense that strategic planning does not produce novel results. Instead they perpetuate the status quo.”…
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