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Service Innovation In The Cloud: Implications For Strategy Development, Robert R. Harmon, Enrique G. Castro-Leon Oct 2018

Service Innovation In The Cloud: Implications For Strategy Development, Robert R. Harmon, Enrique G. Castro-Leon

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Cloud enterprises have shifted from linear to networked business models through a value transformation process centered on the development of multisided service platforms. These platforms facilitate service exchange and value cocreation by enabling three essential transitions: 1. from control to orchestration of enterprise resources, 2. from internal optimization to external interactions, and 3. from customer value to ecosystem value. Innovative service transformation is most in evidence with enterprises that are native cloud companies or companies that have more rapidly and effectively adopted ecosystem-based service platforms such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Uber and Airbnb. Service ecosystems enable the critical processes for …


Cloud Service Adoption Decision, Greg Wease, Chih-Jen Yu, Kwasi Boateng, Leong Chan Aug 2015

Cloud Service Adoption Decision, Greg Wease, Chih-Jen Yu, Kwasi Boateng, Leong Chan

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Many organizations with an IT infrastructure consisting of a combination of hardware and software, look for ways to achieve greater efficiencies, cost-savings associated with maintenance and upkeep, ease of use, while maintaining a great level of security. The main idea behind this research paper is to better understand the decision-making process with respect to how an IT organization evaluates its needs and chooses between different computer-hosting environments, i.e.: public cloud, private cloud, hybrid – combination of public and private cloud, lastly, an in-house platform, which is hosted internal to the organization and/or via a datacenter. A widely-accepted definition of “Cloud …


A Comprehensive Assessment Of Cloud Computing For Smart Grid Applications:A Multi-Perspectives Framework, Nina Chaichi, Joao Lavoie, Soheil Zarrin, Rafaa Khalifa, Felix Sue Aug 2015

A Comprehensive Assessment Of Cloud Computing For Smart Grid Applications:A Multi-Perspectives Framework, Nina Chaichi, Joao Lavoie, Soheil Zarrin, Rafaa Khalifa, Felix Sue

Engineering and Technology Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

The IT system is one of the key infrastructures in order to add intelligent feature to power grids. Many papers anticipated a rocky road for IT system integration into power system and suggested the cloud computing adoption as a smart grid IT infrastructure to smooth the integration. Though cloud computing could overcome some of these integration challenges, it would bring some of its own. This study intends to give more insight to decision makers or utility companies to make a better decision whether to adopt cloud computing with regards to their needs or not. In the problem statement section is …