{"id":2186,"date":"2012-06-18T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T16:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2295223"},"modified":"2012-06-18T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T16:06:01","slug":"an-agile-and-revenue-generating-approach-to-cloud-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/an-agile-and-revenue-generating-approach-to-cloud-services\/","title":{"rendered":"An Agile and Revenue-Generating Approach to Cloud Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel insurance provider Seven Corners went beyond the typical efficiency and cost conservation benefits of cloud to build innovative business services that generate whole new revenue streams.<br \/>\nI often hear that culture will trump strategy. It sounds as if in your organization &#8212; maybe because you&#8217;re an SMB and you can get the full buy-in of your leadership &#8212; you actually were able to make culture into the strategy?<br \/>\nAbsolutely! By changing the culture and getting the departments out there to ask, &#8220;Is this stuff you&#8217;re doing going to help me with this problem?&#8221; &#8220;Well, yes, it will,&#8221; and then you deliver on that promise.<br \/>\nWhen you make a promise and you deliver on it, on or ahead of schedule and under budget people begin to believe, they&#8217;re willing to participate and actively suggest other possible uses with technology that maybe you didn&#8217;t think of. So you end up with a great technology-business relationship, which had the immediate result for the owners who were out looking to buy an insurance services application or rent one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2295223\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel insurance provider Seven Corners went beyond the typical efficiency and cost conservation benefits of cloud to build innovative business services that generate whole new revenue streams.<br \/>\nI often hear that culture will trump strategy. It sounds a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}