How cloud created the year of the end-user.

Happy IT moves the Business Outcome needle #ibmcloud

Notes from the DoubleLine Lunch with Jeffrey Gundlach, Spring 2013 | The Reformed Broker.

What does a Failing Project look like?.

Cloud Musings by Kevin L. Jackson: Cloudcuity™: Thought Leadership Translated to Operational Excellence.

IT Workforce Can’t Meet Demand for Cloud Skills – CIO.com.

Organizations are not only relying on cloud to enhance internal efficiencies, but also to target more strategic business capabilities.

• Increased Collaboration with external partners
• Competitive/Cost advantages through vertical integration
• New delivery channels/markets
• Competitive differentiation through specialization
• Rebalanced mix of products/services
• Flexible pricing models

Organizations clearly intend for cloud to improve their business capabilities, in addition to enhancing internal efficiencies.

What’s your point of view ?

Well designed and well managed improvement initiatives can deliver benefits beyond efficiency.  This occurs only when the Business receives real operational improvements.

Prior to executing a transformational project make sure you avoid these causes of failure.

• Insufficient attention to organizational change

• Poor linkage to business priorities

• Lack of senior management support

• Insufficient governance, measurement, and planning

• Unbalanced Perspectives  (understand the requirements)

• Organizational change capacity overload

• Ineffective Communications

• Insufficient Agility (short term incremental improvements. not big bang)

• Focus on tools to early in the project

• Poor management of vendors and poor use of consultants

What’s your point of view ?

10 Trends: A Peek At Cloud in 2013 | Talkin Cloud Blog.

Three business types, representing the extent to which organizations use cloud to impact company and industry value chains, and customer value propositions:  (Risk determines type)

• Optimizers use cloud to incrementally enhance their customer value propositions while improving their organization’s efficiency.

• Innovators significantly improve customer value through cloud adoption, resulting in new revenue streams or even changing their role within an existing industry ecosystem.

• Disruptors rely on cloud to create radically different value propositions, as well as generate new customer needs and segments – and even new industry value chains.