Business Agility Drives Cloud Adoption

Grazed from CIO. Author: Thor Olavsrud.

Companies moving aggressively to adopt cloud computing are winning competitive advantage by reducing complexity and increasing business agility, according to a recent study by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services. Angelia Herrin, research director at HBR, says 70 percent of respondents to HBR’s survey had adopted cloud computing, and 35 percent of adopters "are very aggressively moving forward where ever it makes sense."

Drilling deeper, 56 percent of aggressive adopters told HBR they were gaining "significant advantage" as a result." "The people that are really getting competitive advantage are the ones who are moving aggressively," Herrin says. "And they’re certainly not leading with cost as a reason to do this."…

In research sponsored by Verizon, HBR surveyed 527 Harvard Business Review readers in large and mid-sized companies in wide range of industries around the world. Forty-four percent of the respondents came from organizations with more than 10,000 employees and 34 percent from organizations with between 1,000 and 10,000 employees…

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