Moving to the Cloud Corporation: How to face the challenges and harness the potential of cloud computing [Paperback]

Drawing on an international survey of over 1,000 business and executives, this book provides a management perspective on cloud technology. It outlines the need to know information for strategic decisions on cloud technology including its capabilities, how it can be implemented securely and the way forward for the next ten years.Preface: Five Ways Cloud Changes IT Introduction: Managing New Waves of Power 1. Cloud - A Critical Review Of Progress 2. The Business Promise of Cloud 3. The Challenge of Moving to Cloud 4. Cloud's Near and Long Term Impacts 5. Cloud and The Diffusion of Innovation 6. Managing The Cloud: Developing The Retained Organization 7. The Cloud Corporation  Changing the Form of Organization 8. Looking into Clouds  The Potential Future for Cloud

'The authors make a key contribution to moving the Cloud from a frustrating era of marketing hype to a more mature era of developing best practice. Insightful stories of the enterprise are combined with thorough and well-articulated research. A seriously important and timely business book.'

-Dr Richard Sykes, Chair of the Cloud Industry Forum

Few are better than Leslie Willcocks at bringing fact-based clarity to a world full of over-hyped techno-babble. It's an essential book for anyone trying the navigate today's technology and business landscape.

-Mike Corbett, Chairman and Founder, IAOP

'Willcocks, Venters and Whitley have delivered the definitive roadmap for business and IT leaders seeking to remove their organizations from the stranglehold of legacy IT departments and practices. Cloud computing is bringing together business process and technology in a much more meaningful way, where business line leaders can immerse themselves in the governance of data, analytics and information they need to be more effective The authors perform a meticulous and insightful job recounting the history of Cloud, how it has permeated academial£,