A cloud platform isn’t an additional element that you add to your IT portfolio. It resembles full-on IT outsourcing more than IT procurement.
Cloud Strategy – A Decisions-Based Approach to Successful Cloud Migration by Gregor Hohpe
In the long run, though, the greatest IT risk facing most companies is more prosaic than a catastrophe. It is, simply, overspending. IT may be a commodity, and its costs may fall rapidly enough to ensure that any new capabilities are quickly shared, but the very fact that it is entwined with so many business…
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. Peter Drucker
Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group. Clayton M Christensen
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. Nelson Mandela
A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance. – Gary Hamel
A crisis is made by men, who enter into the crisis with their own prejudices, propensities, and predispositions. A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored. ― MICHAEL CRICHTON, AUTHOR, BOOK QUOTE FROM THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN