Business Transformation through Enterprise Cloud Computing – A Reference Architecture
August 10, 2013
Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Cloud Ventures.
Computing refers to best practices for larger organizations to adopt Cloud Computing, and how it can be applied to achieve business transformation.The primary benefit is enhanced business agility. Improving the ability of a complex organization to react more quickly to market opportunity, like launching a new product, is where the impact of new Cloud technologies will be seen more effectively rather than one about a debate over in-house versus outsourcing, public vs private Clouds.
These sentiments are reflected by industry experts, and coincides with the evolution of the role of the CIO to become more strategic, closing the gap between business and IT that ZDNet describes here…
How this increased acumen can be achieved is explained through examples such as this one on how the role of the CIO can expand to include Business Process Optimization, citing an example of CIO’s charged with leading business improvements and being skilled in organizational practices like Six Sigma to drive continual process improvement…
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