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The accompanying Executive Report explores how cloud computing can play a vital role as a catalyst in accelerating the leveling of modern society by fueling the ongoing shift from top-down, "supply push" business environments to bottom-up, "demand pull" bu

Outsourcing suppliers, not surprisingly -- given their close-up view and their numerous bidding and contract experiences -- can be very insightful about clients. What they would tell clients if they could is a mix of observation and frequently helpful advice that ranges from the objective to the self-interested.

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Cloud computing is emerging as a defining platform coinciding with the rise of Big Data and the "always connected" mobile era. As the industry attempts to define both its promises and challenges, cloud computing is rapidly evolving.

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Cloud computing is emerging as a defining platform coinciding with the rise of Big Data and the "always connected" mobile era.

Cutter Fellow Rob Austin and I are completing a book on innovation, The Soul of Design: The Surprising Power of Plot to Enhance Product and Service Experiences (forthcoming from Stanford University Press, 2012).

"You can't manage a secret."

From the simplest to the most complex decisions, we like to believe that we are making them with an objective perspective and a willingness to take all the parameters and factors into account. The tragedy, however, is that we often don’t give enough credit to our wealth of information in making those decisions.

Actually, the real question is "How can the CIO not lose?" To better understand the recoiling from adopting IT governance, let's try to portray two -- and for the benefit of our little exercise -- radical images of the CIO and why IT governance is as alien a concept as Star Trek to both types.