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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Management: Building the Retained Organization
Authors : Leslie Willcocks, Will Venters, Edgar A. Whitley
Published in: Moving to the Cloud Corporation
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Earlier chapters have pointed to the promise of cloud. Generically, the promise is: speed, payment based on consumption, lower costs, clearly defined services managed to appropriate services levels, on-demand availability, and scalability. There is simplicity (complexity hidden from view), allowing a focus on business requirements, strategy, and innovation, away from day-to-day maintenance and technology issues.1 We have also pointed to the challenges presented by cloud computing technologies, their likely impacts and their potential for incremental, architectural, and radical innovations for the business. The opportunity is clear: