{"id":2493,"date":"2012-07-05T13:24:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2307456"},"modified":"2012-07-05T13:24:29","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:24:29","slug":"rethinking-it-using-the-cloud-as-change-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/rethinking-it-using-the-cloud-as-change-catalyst\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking IT: Using the Cloud as Change Catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the technology evolves, so do the roles of the IT Department. There is a sea change whereby an effective organization doesn&#8217;t need those to plug in cables and write endless code as much as to recognize and broker IT needs for the betterment of the enterprise.<br \/>\nThere are a lot of experts and process gurus who are more qualified than I to tell you how to manage change.  They will offer a great deal of high level advice such as \u201cdefine the vision,\u201d \u201ccreate a change proposition,\u201d \u201cpromote staff input to shape the solution.\u201d And these are very wise nuggets of advice. And we (in IT) are at a crossroads for change. The landscape of the role, the challenges of the responsibilities, the tools of the trade are all evolving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2307456\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the technology evolves, so do the roles of the IT Department. There is a sea change whereby an effective organization doesn&#8217;t need those to plug in cables and write endless code as much as to recognize and broker IT needs for the betterment of the e&#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-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","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=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}