Transformation through collaboration: The impact of technology on business strategy
How business and IT have been thrown into a potential new business model that challenges existing business barriers.
The session will share recent insights into the technology trends, risk and security barriers and issues and how companies are seeking ways to exploit this Internet and "business cloud"
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The WBS Fora Series is run with support from solicitors, Wright Hassall LLP
Mark joined Capgemini 2009 with responsibilities for Global service offer development and delivery readiness. He has 25 years experience in IT and has held various positions as European CTO, Chief Architect, global Architecture community chair and founder of an SOA academy and CoEs. He is currently a Co-chair of The Open Group Cloud Computing Work Group Project for Cloud Business Artifacts and Cloud ROI and has published and spoken globally on the subject of Cloud computing.
He recently authored a highly successful white paper on Cloud ROI which has been widely syndicated in CIO.com, Reuters, CloudComputingJournal, and has been published in the British Computer Society Year Book for 2010. He is currently co-authoring a Book on Cloud Computing with The Open Group due Q1 2011. Mark is a graduate of Sheffield University; he completed a Post Graduate course at Cambridge Universities and holds an MBA from Warwick Business School.
Recent Publications:
- http://www.cio.com/article/595179/8_Ways_to_Measure_Cloud_ROI
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gardner/open-groups-cloud-workgroup-delivers-new-white-paper-on-business-roi-of-cloud-computing/3621 - David Linthicum Cloud Computing blog May 8 Blogcast entry. Introduction to The Open Group work on Cloud ROI
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cloud-computing-podcast/id294565273?ign-mpt=uo%3D4 - Harvard Medical School use of cloud computing provides harbinger for new IT business value, Open Group panel finds By Dana Gardner, ZDNetAugust 3, 2010 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gardner/harvard-medical-school-use-of-cloud-computing-provides-harbinger-for-new-it-business-value-open-group-panel-finds/3782
- How a CIO made a business case for a cloud computing solution http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/2240021582/How-a-CIO-made-a-business-case-for-a-cloud-computing-solution
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