Cloudy Thinking – a Cordys whitepaper by Jon Pyke

The economic turmoil, globalization and the changes in the New World Order means that organizations cannot afford to waste time, human and financial resources on processes that can rapidly and easily be automated and managed. Process innovation and speed of change are the key opportunities for competitive differentiation moving forwards. Traditional IT solutions are finding themselves under stress as the struggle to meet the demands of the business leaders and customers they serve.

Unfortunately the IT organization, responsible for facilitating changes demanded by the business, often falls short of being able to do just that. Many studies and surveys show that changes to IT infrastructure and applications are fraught with complexity, costing much more and taking much longer than initially anticipated. It is not uncommon for an IT organization to take 5 or more years to make significant enterprise-wide changes; this pace just doesn’t support the business initiatives required in today’s business climate.

So it is inevitable the Businesses leaders are looking for new ways to use computing power to meet their needs and fortuitously two trends are beginning coalesce to provide a new way of delivering applications as services.

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Weathering the Perfect Storm – a Cordys whitepaper by Jon Pyke

This whitepaper explains how your organization not only can survive the perfect storm of the global credit crisis, but even achieve superior performance and get ahead of your competitors, by using next generation BPM.

Most of the world’s economies are in recession and the credit crunch has steepened the slide. Policy makers around the world are racing to contain the damage and there are calls for the expansion of government spending, taxes and regulation. In some quarters there are calls for a radical revision of current economic systems and the end of capitalism.

The current situation was created by a perfect storm of mutually reinforcing trends and policy mistakes: in the United States the loose monetary policy by the FED post 9/11, the housing policy that encouraged home ownership by those less able to pay, the growth of leverage and the use of complicated derivatives, poor and lacking governance and an oil price shock. All of these factors resulted in a housing bubble that became a recession.

To lead in this business environment is to embrace change. That means business processes must be both thorough and yet still quickly adaptable. It’s no longer just what you do that counts, it’s how you do what you do—and how quickly you can modify your methods to take on new opportunities and challenges that’s really important.

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Harnessing the benefits of the Cloud to thrive in the new World economic landscape. - By Mark De Simone of CORDYS

The financial turmoil of recent months is a clear and unequivocal proof that, in the first few years of the 21st century, the world is changing beyond recognition. We live in a far more complex world, one which is globally interdependent and massively interconnected, where strategic decisions in business and public administrations are based on instant knowledge and real-time collective expertise. There is a new leadership doctrine, one which is no longer based on traditional command and control models, but much closer aligned to the collaborative and process-oriented culture that we are beginning to see with the emergence of the next step in the evolution of the Web: the Cloud.

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