Within the current Cloud Business Model we would find 1) hosted applications to which we outsource data (salesforce.com is one example), 2) the external cloud (servers provided by a cloud provider outside the firewall) and 3) the internal cloud (servers provided inside the firewall). We have over the last 12 months seen 2 trends...
In a recent conversation with a CIO the obvious question of the peer se competitive advantage in the adaptation of the cloud was raised. As aboarded earlier the adaptation of the cloud (external cloud defined as owned/ leased (SAAS) applications, bundled in to services with an underlying architecture, that run on a server provided...
I have previously introduced “non traditional IT” notions such as ”Time to Market”, “Cloudsource”, ”Make or Buy”, “Cost and Demand drivers”, “An IT Business Model and Value Proposition” and ”An IT service Strategy”. Within this context I believe that a new notion and function will have to be instored, the IT department as effective broker of services...
I assume that most of you have heard the theory of the butterfly effect related to chaos theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect), not the film. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions; where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later...
