Running Your Business In The Cloud: How CIOs Should Prepare

Grazed from Forbes. Author: David Amerland.

In the world of cloud computing, your IT department needs to be agile. CIOs must become responsive to the needs of the business. The alternative is disruption—the bad kind. David Amerland explains… Even relatively small changes can have a significant impact on the way your enterprise works. But transitioning to the cloud is far from a small change: Its impact is considerable and disruptive, but in a good way. Disruption is good—at least, home-grown disruption is. The challenge requires adaptation, which plays to our Darwinistic notions of how businesses evolve, strive to survive, and come out stronger.

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As an enterprise transitions from a traditional business model to an agile cloud-based corporation, the most obvious change involves the part IT plays. Traditionally limited to a very specific role within the organization, IT was the department that would be forgotten about until a problem cropped up…

But now, the move to the cloud takes the IT department out of the backwoods and into the core of the organization. When every decision made across departments requires some kind of basic IT knowledge for it to go smoothly you realize that the transition to the cloud is also a change in the very DNA of the corporation…

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