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re: Time to Make It Rain!

Bill Ahlstrom — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:45:34 GMT

Good questions, Rohit.

Traditional outsourcing needs to be differentiated from use of cloud-based services. Traditional IT outsourcing still is based on just-in-case capacity, and cost savings (if any) flow from more efficient operation by the outsourcer and/or lower costs because of relocation and labor arbitrage.

Just-in-time capacity and pay-for-use billing will reduce over-all costs of service X.

As will virtualization and consolidation, which drive greater efficiency through higher utilization.

By creating a true competitive market for cloud based services, public or private, offered by multiple providers, the range of choice available to business leaders will increase, and costs will be driven down as they are in most competitive markets. So resources will be available for reallocation.

If attuned to this, IT and business leaders together can derive business cases for applying those resources to new services.

That's the conceptual model outlined and discussed at Management World.

A case study of this sort of outcome was presented by Telecom Italia at a recent eTIS meeting in Bucharest (see etis.org).

re: Time to Make It Rain!

Rohit Raghav — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:13:22 GMT

Bill

Strategic implications of cloud can indeed be significant, as highlighted in your post.

Have queries around comment on business leaders' flexibility in choosing from variety of suppliers'.

If the business is extensively outsourcing its IT services, then business leaders already have flexibility in choosing vendors (maybe even multiple vendors, if each BU can use preferred vendors). In such scenario,

a) will advantages of cloud restrict to initially identified cloud benefits like cost/scalability/low entry & exit barriers etc.?

b) If the benefit has to accrue throuh IT leaders' ability to drive innovation, what are the key challenges involved? Will deploying/using Cloud for IT requirements reduce the execution effectiveness of such management innovation because Cloud will, probably, further erode the inhouse IT capabilities, at least at operational level. What conscious efforts should businesses make to take-on the challenges and make the most of resource reallocation?

Thanks

Rohit

re: In the Blink of an Eye.....Management World 2009 to 2010

michael Devlin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:39:48 GMT

I would be interested to know what your opinion and that of others may be on which telecom applications are most likely or least likely to transition to the cloud and when. In particular I am wondering about the any inertia related to network ops, network management, or network planning.

re: What a Difference a Year Makes!

Garima Bajpai — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:31:00 GMT

Hi,

As we are discussing lot about the potential of the cloud based service offering , let us also brain storm the other aspects which need to be considered as part of this offering

1. How far this model can allow to perform customisation based on specific customer requirement

2. The pricing model for such services License model of applications/software to be offered in pay per use is one option

re: What a Difference a Year Makes!

Garima Bajpai — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:30:59 GMT

Hi,

As we are discussing lot about the potential of the cloud based service offering , let us also brain storm the other aspects which need to be considered as part of this offering

1. How far this model can allow to perform customisation based on specific customer requirement

2. The pricing model for such services License model of applications/software to be offered in pay per use is one option