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Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.

Enterprise I.T’s happy. They’ve got that all-important ‘pat on the back for cloud’, haven’t they done well. A cloud strategy perception defined, offered and marketed through the desk of those middle-aged Senior I.T Managers. It’s all server consolidation this, cap ex optimization that. Oh the ecstasy, oh the thrill, oh the opportunity L. For these blinkered eyes I beg you to please recognize that a cloud strategy can be so SO much more. Unless eyes start opening, building a united business driven technology strategy, cloud will be no more exciting than walking in the damp damp rain.

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Is your company…….

— thinking of all value gained from cloud computing rather than a single view of IT improvements?
— aware of the goals and benefits cloud adoption can bring?
— aware to how cloud computing COULD deliver greater and faster strategic and tactical objectives?

…… most don’t

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In bed with the bo$$

Limitless projects sponsored with the sole aim of creating that ever efficient process focused corporate monster. The days of challenging uniquely on these factors is extremely short sighted and a recipe for disaster.

Today it’s not about ERP or order-to-cash improvements, the darlings of process optimization. Projects with lots of cash doing the same stuff. It’s all the same just tweaking the button every little every few years. Where’s the f^$ck&%g competitive edge in that? Sure you’ll save a bit here and there, but you’ll gain very little. I don’t deny that ERP and such alike are important for transformation, but you can’t compete on them!

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"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."

- Henry Ford

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Are you this or, ‘that’?

Active and inspiring OR pompous and traditional? Sharing and helpful OR detached and superior? Understand and train OR administer and supervise? Lead by character OR lead by rules?

Drive by IMAGINATION OR drive by FEAR?

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Meet you @ the table.

We the technology holders, we the Cloud innovators need to be at the table of strategic business alignment a lot lot earlier than currently assumed by the majority of Cxx folk.

Knowledgeable companies that will thrive in this age of mass information will be the ones who eat, sleep and breathe business driven technology strategies. To enable this it’s vital to concentrate on ‘what the business wants to create’. A flawless understanding of the business needs commands the route of flow for the organizations technology adoption. Once this is in place technologies can be brought in for the needs of the enterprise.

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Delivering coal

A hundred years ago we had ‘the modern industrial enterprise’.

Coal delivery

A lone self-sufficient beast mass-producing a steady stream of high output products, “stack’m high sell’m cheap”. Everything was intended to maximize control and regulation, a self-managed and enormously successful model of old. The fewer dependencies on external providers the less risk of a ‘spanner in the works’. Fuel, more specifically coal, was one of those external commodities vital for business continuity. Massive quantities of the stuff were needed to feed the electrical generators that powered factories and office buildings of that time. Deprived of coal they had no electricity, without electricity they had no business. You would see daily, guy’s moving coal from carriages and storage to the searing basement furnaces 24/7/365.

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In crisis comes opportunity

Fantastic IBM video, it really drives home all that’s exciting about the Cloud revolution. Ousting traditional zilch value-add procedures, empowering businesses to concentrate on more electrifyingly new and pioneering stuff. Offering employees the opportunity to do, and be part of, ideas that were never possible a few years back. This is what energizes me about Cloud; this is what gets me out of bed in the morning. Everything and anything’s possible. In today’s world ideas are only limited by our own creativeness.

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"We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies - in the minds of those closest to the work."

- Jack Welch - General Electric CEO

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Innovation, a few starters.

Don’t make it a pre-condition to seek Management support and funding. Employees with ideas should promote them to their peers, receive feedback, build the team and execute the plan. Many revolutionary ideas directly attack the notion ‘business as usual’. Executive have a vested interest to keep it ‘business as usual’, mostly for self-gain.

Remove the old pyramids of power. People at the top are generally so far removed from reality that they don’t ‘get it’. Traditional ‘innovation hubs’ stall due to lack of management understanding and buy in.

Make it clear that ideas can come from anyone. Support diversity. If doable have them located close together. It’ll encourage the creative process no end.

Give your team a little space to explore ideas that aren’t directly revenue generating.

quora.com

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Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave.

Is your company…….

Are you this or, ‘that’?

Delivering coal

In crisis comes opportunity