{"id":4040,"date":"2012-10-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/oct\/10\/is-cloud-roi-of-the-people-by-the-people-for-the-people\/"},"modified":"2012-10-10T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T08:00:00","slug":"is-cloud-roi-of-the-people-by-the-people-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/is-cloud-roi-of-the-people-by-the-people-for-the-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Is cloud ROI \u201cof the people, by the people, for the people\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p><em>Originally posted on ComputerWorld<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Companies are shifting resources to the cloud for a variety of reasons: efficiency, cost, analytics, customer service, etc. While these are worthy goals, there&rsquo;s a more fundamental objective that companies leveraging the cloud should strive for: unlocking the collective brainpower of your workforce and customer base.<\/p>\n<p>While the term &#8220;social&#8221; means different things to different people, at the heart of the concept lies an understanding that people are the organisation&rsquo;s most valuable asset.<\/p>\n<p>In a truly &#8220;social&#8221; business, technology implementations &#8211; be they cloud, mobile or social media &#8211; all support the ability of your workforce to collaborate, innovate and remain agile.<\/p>\n<p>To offer a techy twist on James Carville&rsquo;s famous election season adage, when it comes to maximising cloud investment, it&rsquo;s the people, stupid, that ultimately determine the value of your implementation.<\/p>\n<p>How smart, or stupid, then, are today&rsquo;s cloud-dwelling companies?<\/p>\n<p>If &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted on ComputerWorld<br \/>\nCompanies are shifting resources to the cloud for a variety of reasons: efficiency, cost, analytics, customer service, etc. While these are worthy goals, there&rsquo;s a more fundamental objective that companies le&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}