By implementing one-off or short-sighted cloud solutions — often at the urging of the IT industry — many companies have failed to realize the real financial benefit, innovation potential and ecosystem value cloud platforms provide. Only strategic, enterprise-level decisions involving cloud computing will enable companies to become purpose-driven, resilient and adaptable in the emerging business environment.
Yugal Joshi, vice president of the consulting and research firm Everest Group, has advised businesses to keep themselves open to new possibilities as they face the future of cloud in their industries, leaving themselves the flexibility to make choices based on their business model, changes in their industry, and the inevitable evolution of technology: “This is as much about an open mindset as it is about internal processes around application development, delivery, and operations. Enterprise processes and people need to be open enough to incorporate newer industry solutions.”
