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Fabrice Cathala (@FCathala)
- Twitter Bio:
- Seasoned CRM consultant promoting Customer Experience best practices. Public cloud computing evangelist. Father of one & good food enthusiast.
- Location:
- Sophia Antipolis, France
- Website:
- http://about.me/fcathala
Fabrice Cathala's Selections From the Web
Cloud computing changes everything, including corporate strategy as a practice. I have listed five reasons why, although I’m sure there are many more. Long story short: Corporate strategists need to get out of their 20th century mindset and into the 21st century.
For years, the practice of strategy has been about analyzing value chains, applying frameworks like Porter’s five forces or newer strategic-intent-driven ideas like Blue Ocean Strategy. The problem with those framework-driven ideas is they assume a very static, deterministic model of the world. They work when the variables required to solve a problem are already well known,
In the cloud conversation, Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) appear much less than the famed Software as a Service (SaaS). This is not surprising when you consider that a world already populated with built platforms and infrastructure has but to operate on them. However, offering Platforms and Infrastructure through the cloud has been a boon to the software development field, especially with the recently growing push toward increased collaboration between developers and admins, commonly referred to as Development Operations (DevOps).Though somewhat easy to confuse the two, it may be best to view PaaS as a subset
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