Do you know the Cloud Return on
Investment for your business?
A common problem that faces
many businesses is the desire to select a tool to fix a problem without
properly knowing what problem actually needs fixing.
Having a cloud service
recommended for your business requires more work than simply paying for a new
service and expecting it to solve your problems. A proper Cloud ROI requires that you
understand the problem or opportunity that your business is facing and then
evaluating the options for the business.
This generally means that you
must know what abilities you require from a service and then be able to
calculate its cost to be managed.
A cloud service can introduce
more than just a financial value to your business such as cost savings.
A cloud service can introduce
other aspects such as the ability to react faster to changing market conditions
and allow your staff to innovate easier.
Sure, these can become part of a financial calculation related to the
overall performance of your business but their immediate value is tied to speed
and agility.
Determining the costs of
cloud can also be attributed to more criteria than simply the payments that you
send to companies like AWS or Salesforce.com.
Does your business need to continually invest in training? Is the cloud service not widely accepted by
your staff and organizational processes have not matured or modified to
efficiently include the transformation that cloud brings to your business?
Remember that in order to determine
the Cloud Return on Investment for your business then you must properly account
for the value that cloud brings to your business and the cost of the cloud
service and the related transformation that it brings.
CareerEvolve.com is
introducing the Cloud Adoption Framework
for Small Business. It identifies the key questions and activities
that a small business should address as it moves toward cloud computing as a
consideration for its business model.
"48 Hours To
Better Manage Cloud For Your Business" is an online course that
outlines the cloud adoption framework and explains it in business language so
that small business owners can readily apply it as a new tool for their
business.
If you would like to learn more then
register for our upcoming online course "48 Hours To Better Manage
Cloud For Your Business" from CareerEvolve.com!
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