Archive for the ‘Trends’ Category

Managing an Intrapreneur; Command & Control or Harness & Leverage?

The simultaneous rise of two global mega-trends, Consumerization of IT and The War for Talent, have had an enormous effect on human society in general and continue to challenge corporate IT and HR departments within the global enterprise. Whether one perceives these trends as a threat or an opportunity one thing is for sure; they are here to stay. So what makes most sense in terms of dealing with these trends within the global enterprise? Strict restrictive policies or empowerment within the boundaries of corporate governance?

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When people ask my mom what I do for a living, she normally answers with something along the lines of “works with computers”. I honestly don’t know how I am going to explain to her what this blog is about.

I attended the Cloud Forum 2010 conference today. Now, the conference is largely aimed at the end users and their IT management who are the ones that are being sold the benefits of “moving to the cloud“. And by elimination, WE are therefore either the service provider they move from or the ones that they would be moving to! What I am often reading about & are trying to learn is this – as a SaaS provider, how do we stay ahead of this move. Should we be a cloud based service provider at all?

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