The fourth in my series of six issues relative to getting rid of paper focuses on what I call Cloud Craziness. See also…
As many readers know, I usually view cloud and mobile as the twin steroids of business disruption, so let me start with mobile and then shift to the cloud.
I believe one key thing in understanding the impact of mobile, is to think of mobile not as just a phone, but rather as mobility, and to think about the long term shift from centralized to decentralized computing. I really like this chart from my friend George Parapadakis from IBM. I think it places mobility to the broader context of enterprise computing, views mobility through the prism of device, connectivity, the user, and the interface, and concisely tells the story of where we are.
So given that base, where are we currently with the other steroid, cloud? The data from our recent Paper Wars survey reaches the conclusion that for 2/3 of organizations, cloud capture is still a pretty hazy thing – they are either still setting cloud strategies or have reached the conclusion that they will not be pursuing them.