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| Standardizing the Cloud: A Call to Action by Rainer Bernnat, Wolfgang Zink, Nicolai Bieber, and Joachim Strach Cloud computing has the potential to transform how companies large and small purchase and deliver their IT services. Yet a study conducted recently by Booz & Company makes clear that the effort to create the standards needed to guide its development and use has been highly fragmented. Successfully codifying standards for the cloud will require the combined efforts of both cloud service providers and business customers; only then will the full potential of cloud computing be realized. download (1.1mb, PDF) > |
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Last Month's Issue
A Catalyst for IT Success: How Proficiency in Change Management Can Make IT Transformations Pay Offby Nate Clark, Dan Holland, Danielle Phaneuf, and Neill Beurskens Creating a strong change management proficiency can have a real impact in reducing the high failure rate of large IT transformation projects. If change management is to succeed, however, it must be more than an afterthought. Instead, it must be an integral part of the project planning process, and a key responsibility of all the project team members, including those from other parts of the business—all of whom must be thoroughly educated in the principles of the discipline.download (352kb, PDF) > |
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