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TEEMU ARINA

SAMI VIITAMÄKI

                 E-book no:1
                   May 2011
Why should you read this e-book?
1. Make sense of the cultural and economic implications
   of emerging social technologies.
2. Understand and shape internal and external digital communication strategies.
3. Design models for thinking and communicating new strategy and vision.
4. Increase efficiency and effectiveness by lowering the transaction costs
   of doing business in a digital world.
5. Make great products that are more meaningful and valuable for customers.
6. Empower employees in ways that bring greater customer satisfaction.
7. Leverage transparency to gain greater reputation, credibility,
   and trust in the marketplace.
8. Avoid constant reorganization by being more sensitive
   and open to changing customer needs.
9. Redefine the competition in a way that expands
   the market opportunity for everyone.
10. Stay focused on improving the bottom line and not be
    continuously driven by new tools and technologies.
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What?
Cloud Company is a book and media project exploring digitally distributed practices
and social technologies for strategy, management, and communications.



Why
                  It’s clear that succeeding in today's networked world requires companies to be ever
                  more agile, responsive, and intelligent in a digital environment. What’s not as clear is
                  how to build these capabilities in a company. Cloud Company seeks to answer this
                  question with a systematic framework.


For               Cloud Company is produced for global leaders developing strategy and culture,
                  management and operations, as well as communications and customer relations to
                  answer the demanding challenges of everyday business and decisions for the future.



How
                  Through www.cloudcompany.cc, we discuss and develop the fundamental concepts
                  through research, articles, and dialogue with executives and experts. During 2011 we
                  will develop this material into a comprehensive book illuminating the roots, transitions,
                  and practical issues in designing and building a Cloud Company.



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Who?
 Sami Viitamäki
                        • Partner and Strategy Director, TBWA
                        • M. Sc. (Econ.) Degree in International Design Business Management
                          (Economics, Arts & Technology).
                        • Known and praised speaker on the impact of digital and social practices and
                          technologies on marketing, communications, and customer relationships.
                        • Ex-marketing manager and member of group-level social media unit at TeliaSonera,
                          the largest telecom operator in the Nordics.
                        • Key strengths: crowdsourcing, digital branding & marketing, service design & content
www.samiviitamaki.com     development, social technology & distributed practices in management and marketing.



   Teemu Arina
                        • Public speaker, writer, journalist, and management consultant for digital technologies.
                        • Given approximately 100 presentations a year at recognized conferences, business
                          summits, and universities in Germany, the U.S., the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands,
                          Finland, and Italy.
                        • No. 1 speaker on social media at Speakersforum, the largest speakers agency in Finland.
                        • CEO of Dicole Ltd. and award-winning technology entrepreneur for over 13 years.
                        • Key strengths: social media, open innovation, net generation, knowledge management,
                          service design, digital ecosystems, collaborative learning, and e-learning.
   www.tarina.me
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We live in turbulent times...




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globali-
                                                         zation
                                           shifting                    vertical &                 networked
               evolving
                                          balance of                   horizontal                  economy
              structures
                                            power                       mobility
                                                                                       ‘free’                 vanishing
  remote                   information
                                                        geopolitical                services &                 middle
(co)working                  overload
                                                                                      goods                    market
                                          decreased                      frugal
           organizational                  stability                   innovation                 economic
                              novel                                                    new
global hunt                                             disruptive                                              deal
                           management                                                forms of
 for talent                                            competition                                             hunters
                              ideas                                                  payment
                                                                                                     true
             transparency                                                                           social
                                                                                                  shopping

                               Businesses face several
                             transitions simultaneously...
                 net                                                                               global
              generation                                                                           village
accidental
                                                          cloud                       aging                    digital
entrepre-                   prosumers
                                                        computing                    societies                 divide
 neurship
                                             open                     context-
              individual                 standards &                awareness &                    societal
                                          interfaces                  mobility
                           continuous
  end of                                                                            educational                creative
                             partial                   technological
  9 to 5                                                                              reform                     class
                            attention
                 the                         social             next gen.
                                                                                                    smart
              augmented                  technology &           search &
                                                                                                    mobs
                human                      platforms            analytics
                                                     ubiquitous
                                                     computing                                                                7
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...while the traditional organization struggles.
  80% of leaders, when asked, state that                                           Executives routinely require new initiatives
    they’re strategy is communicated                                                to prove their potential through a tedious,
 understandably across the organization...                                           time-intensive and watertight process...

...but according to middle management only                                          ...which should in theory lead to more than
 15% of them can effectively communicate                                              the existing rate of 10% of new offerings
  and thus execute the company’s strategy.          Management                             surviving in the market place.

         Ref: TBWA study 2009                                                           Ref: Copernicus Marketing Consulting



              Employees                                                                       Customers




                                             When company management are asked if
                                              they offer a superior experience to their
                                             customers, over 80% claim that they do...

                                          ...which is in sharp contrast to customers
                                         saying that only 8% of companies they deal
                                             with really deliver this kind of value.
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                                                   Ref: Bain & Company (2005)
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The situation calls for
    rethinking and redesigning
                 Strategy &
                 Leadership


Management                    Communications
& Operations                   & Interactions




                   and




           for the digital era.
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It calls for a
Cloud Company
    approach.




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Cloud Services I know...

• 1980s - Network
 TCP/IP, ICT, mobile phones, 1G.

• 1990s - World Wide Web
 GSM, hypertext, commercial
 internet, search engines,
 mobile internet.

• 2000s - Web 2.0
 Web as a platform, social media, user-generated content,
 geolocation services, crowdsourcing.

• 2010s - Cloud
 Cloud computing, cloud-based services, application stores,
 augmented reality, Deep Space Internet, internet of things...        11
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...but what is a Cloud Company?

     Traditional &         Precision, speed,     Vertical and horizontal,
      charismatic          standardization          multiple roles &
      domination           & specialization       multinational design         Cloud Company


   Entrepreunial &           Functional &               Matrix                    Virtual &
cooperative structures   divisional structures        structures              network structures



Pre-bureaucratic                     Bureaucratic                           Post-bureaucratic




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In a Cloud Company




 distributed practices and social technologies
play key roles in transformation on every front...
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...Enhancing interaction and bringing results.

Utilization of the company’s collective intelligence                                 Intelligence and insight for (co)creating
      for better decision-making processes.            Management                  propositions more valuable to customers.
Empowerment of workers who manage their own                                         Effective communications and interactions
 knowledge for constant, iterative learning.                                       for increased market footprint and sales.



                 Employees                                                                Customers




                                            Fast and personal customer service and care
                                             that spur loyalty and recommendations.
                                            Internal resources, partners, and customers
                                           effectively organized for daily operations.
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So what does a
Cloud Company
    look like?




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Cloud Company extends to all
           areas of business.

                                                     LEARNING
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Cloud Company extends to all
           areas of business.

      It is about deep strategic                         LEARNING
learning, constant adaptation,                           LEARNING
   and change in near real-time.                         FROM THE
                                                         FROM THE
                                                       ENVIRONMENT
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Cloud Company extends to all
           areas of business.

      It is about deep strategic                               LEARNING
learning, constant adaptation,                                 LEARNING
   and change in near real-time.                               FROM THE
                                                               FROM THE
                                                             ENVIRONMENT
                                                             ENVIRONMENT
It utilizes open and distributed                                                Active
practices, social technologies,                                              Intelligence
           and digital interfaces.




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                                                                  centric   sourcing
             Triskelion                                           design
Cloud Company extends to all
           areas of business.

      It is about deep strategic
learning, constant adaptation,                                    LEARNING
   and change in near real-time.                                  FROM THE
                                                                ENVIRONMENT            Active
It utilizes open and distributed
practices, social technologies,                                                     Intelligence
           and digital interfaces.




                                                 Lea
                                                 Str ders
     A Cloud Company improves                                   Agile Planning                Systems
                                                                & Development                 Thinking




                                                    ate hi
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   areas and business functions.
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A Cloud Company runs on data
             Social networks, online shops, mobile applications, websites
             requiring registration, more sophisticated equipment at factory
             floor or point of sale, even evolving outdoor advertising – all
             enable us to tap into an explosively expanding ocean of real-
             time data on human behavior.
             In contrast to low-performing companies, industry top
             performers are more skilled in applying analytics over intuition in
             business decision-making on any given area – not just the
             traditionally analytics-heavy areas such as finance
             and operations.
             Areas such as customer service, sales and marketing, customer
             experience management, brand communications, and workforce
             planning and allocation are all areas in which sophisticated
             analytics are traditionally not deployed. Yet industry top
             performers routinely beat low performers in analytics application
             in these areas as well – and reap benefits as a result.
             After the more basic needs of operational efficiency and revenue
             growth have been met, analytics on the areas of innovation and
             learning should be seen as a top priority. Interestingly, the more
             advanced a company is in analytics, the higher pressure it
             perceives for coming up with even better data sources and tools.

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A Cloud Company is not overrun by data
  While data capture and analysis is essential for a Cloud
Company, the ways to actually utilize it in actually guiding
     daily work and future strategies are where the true
             distinctions between winners and losers lie.
But utilizing data in an environment in which we produce
more data each year than the whole human history up to
  the previous one is not an easy task. A total of 60% of
   companies readily admit that they get more data than
                         they know how to use effectively.
         Managing data in a Cloud Company involves many
 considerations new to a traditional company: how do we
   relate to utilizing others’ data; how do we approach the
 openness of our own; what is the level of perfection and
    completeness we require from the data our actions are
   based on; what is the frequency of collating, inspecting
          and acting on data; how and in which form do we
 disseminate data across the organization and how do we
      refine it into knowledge, know-how, and competitive
      advantage? These are all questions a Cloud Company
                                           needs to answer.
         However, a lack in understanding and know-how,
    adequate resources and skills as well as management
 bandwidth among other reasons currently prevents many                         21
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But where to start?

          Rethinking, redesigning, and rebuilding
      strategy, management, and communications
          requires more than a will to get there.

         It requires a framework for innovation.
Enter A.D.E.P.T
Developing strategy, management, and communications to respond to challenges
of the networked world requires a comprehensive approach.

We have crafted our A.D.E.P.T. framework through years of exploratory research,
expert discussions, and practical experience with organizations. The framework
systematically addresses essential issues and challenges in designing and
developing distributed practices and social technologies for strategy,
management, communications, and market Interactions.

We now want to open up our approach and thinking for discussion through our
blog and e-books. We do this to share what we have learned so far and to develop
our own thinking further. Ultimately, we aim for the best possible end result in our
framework, the Cloud Company book, as well as the accompanying cases and tools
through interaction with our readers.




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The A.D.E.P.T. framework for redesigning strategy, management,
and communications consists of five elements:

            Assessment addresses the organizational perspective, analyzing the current


A           situation in terms of environmental, competitive, market, and public contexts,
            establishing goals and urgency, as well as assessing the organization’s apparent and
            hidden strengths and challenges.

            Domain emphasizes the human participants’ view: their desires, goals and needs as


D           well as their current strategies and methods for achieving those goals, the
            frequency and intensity at which participation and interaction are required, as well
            as the most potent shared objects and topics around which to generate interest.

            Engagement is about designing interaction around the established objects and the


E           mode of engagement, openness, and commitment over the course of the interaction,
            as well as effectively motivating participants, be they customers, employees, or
            other actors.

            People comprises the human factors required to build and maintain sustainable


P           interaction, assess skills, and realize full learning potential as well as redefine and
            redistribute rights and responsibilities, and also support and reinforce daily
            interaction loops and flow of information.




T
            Technology addresses the technology-related issues in creating an accessible and
            sustainable environment for interaction, choosing the right infrastructure and
            platforms, crafting or selecting the right applications for different purposes, and
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ASSESSMENT
                                            The assessment phase means setting the stage for change
                  IN SHORT:                 and consists of three areas – Environment, Aspiration, and
                                            Organization.
         Why do we need to change –
      and where do the opportunities lie?   Environment
                                            In a world of constant disruption, the environment is never
                                            again a static landscape, but instead is an ever-flowing and
        Environment         Aspiration      changing seascape – usually a stormy one. It is crucial to
        opportunities        needs &        parse, grasp, and rank the most relevant trends and
          & threats          urgency        developments in the market fast enough to be able to
                                            exploit them – and avoid threats and pitfalls.
                                            Aspiration
                 Organization
                  strengths &               After recognizing the opportunities, current business needs
                   challenges               on all Cloud Company areas – strategy and leadership,
                                            management and operations as well as communications and
                                            customer interactions need to be assessed, prioritized, and
                                            ranked according to urgency and criticality for success.
         Directions, goals & schedule       Organization
                                            Realistically assessing the company’s strengths and
                                            challenges in meeting the needs of the marketplace and the
The                                         business itself is key for effective development.
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ASSESSMENT – Case In Point
  How do you rid yourself of old habits and open up your
       eyes for new business opportunities in practice?
Consider the case of The Atlantic Magazine. The Atlantic
   was a quality ensemble that had been around for 150
     years, but one that had not turned a profit in over a
       decade. With the onset of the recession and ever-
increasing shift to digital media consumption, they were
       at a low-point in 2008, and forced to admit that if
     nothing changed, they would soon face bankruptcy.
      What they did was simple and ingenious: they started
         looking at their business from the viewpoint of an
        imagined Silicon Valley startup that was aiming for
            disrupting, cannibalizing, and overthrowing The
                                          Atlantic’s business.
       The results? The magazine’s revenues have doubled
          since 2005; digital ad revenue is currently 40% – 
       compared to an industry average of 15% – and most
       importantly, after a decade in the red, they turned a
                                profit of $2 million in 2010.
                                    Read more about it here.
The
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DOMAIN
                                       Domain is about in-depth knowledge about the human actors in
                                       the system gained by examining Actors, Contexts and Objects.
             IN SHORT:
                                       Actors
Where in the participants’ lives and
minds do we focus to be relevant?      Knowing the actors means being familiar with the participants’
                                       world and their inherent desires and needs, not merely
                                       demographics or expressed wants. As Alexander Manu has
                                       thoughtfully observed, “The whole modern global economy
      Actors           Contexts        would not exist if it was not for man’s irrational desire to
      desires          situations      become something else than what he now is”.
      & needs       & environments
                                       Contexts
                                       The contexts represent the situations, frequency, and intensity
              Objects                  of interactions and where they currently happen or could take
            shared topics              place. This can unearth opportunities for meaningful exchange
              & issues                 in unobvious situations and environments.
                                       Objects
                                       On the basis of knowing the actors and contexts, we can
      Actor / context / object         identify and decide on the social objects around which to
         opportunity map               generate activity. As no activity revolves around links between
                                       people per se, these topics of genuine interest help bring
                                       people together, converse, and co-create with a shared purpose.
The
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DOMAIN – Case In Point
          As a case in tackling customer needs with analytics and
      meeting them with a sophisticated, networked solution, we
           have Assurant Solutions, a company that sells credit
       insurance and debt protection, and faced a 16% retention
       rate when customers called to cancel their services – good
                         in the industry but still far from desirable.
        What they did was to challenge the conventional wisdom
      that customers valued operational excellence metrics – low
                abandon rates, fast speed to answer – above all.
              When they brought in IBM’s team focusing on deep
             analytics to uncover the customers’ real needs, they
      discovered something interesting. Customers were actually
          happy to wait longer – if that meant being paired with a
       customer service representative (CSR) best suited to their
                                                           needs.
         Pairing each caller individually and in real time with the
      best possible CSR tripled their retention rates and led them
        to launch a B2B offering called RAMP together with IBM.
                             You can get familiar with RAMP here.
The
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ENGAGEMENT
                                                The engagement phase involves designing the forms of interaction
                    IN SHORT:                   and co-creation most potent for achieving the identified
                                                goals through the areas of Access, Mode, and Motivation.
      How to interact fruitfully, effectively,
                and sustainably?                Access
                                                Access is not a trivial issue even in a time when gurus preach about
                                                the virtues of universal openness. Who can interact, on which

           Access               Mode            terms, how access and privileges are leveled, and other elements of
        transparency        competition,        access can all act as powerful accelerators or detractors regarding
        & commitment        collaboration,      engagement initiatives and their effectiveness.
                               or other
                                                Mode
                                                While collaboration is the form of interaction most often springs to
                   Motivation                   mind when talking about social technologies and distributed
                   rewards &                    practices, other basic forms, such as competition and self-
                   incentives                   expression, are suited to different needs and require their own
                                                considerations to be successful.

                                                Motivation
              Engagement and                    Motivating participants requires thorough thinking about intrinsic
                phasing plan                    incentives – such as pure enjoyment from taking part, creativity,
                                                and challenge; extrinsic social incentives – such as visibility and
                                                authority; and extrinsic material incentives – such as redeemable
                                                points, products, or cash. Remember that cash is not necessarily the
The
                                                best participation driver.
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ENGAGEMENT – Case In Point
                        In 2010 GE launched the Ecoimagination Challenge, a open
                        innovation experiment for businesses, entrepreneurs,
                        innovators, and students around the world to share their ideas
                        about a next-generation energy grid as well as electrical
                        applications. The challenge generated multiple new business
                        and growth opportunities for GE.
                        So far the challenge has attracted thousands of high quality
                        ideas, suggestions, and proposals that are elaborately presented
                        through scientific papers, system descriptions, images, and
                        videos. The participants range from ten year olds to veterans in
                        their nineties, and from seasoned professionals to clever
                        hobbyists. Up to this point, the public has answered to two major
                        challenges: one of them focusing on powering up the grid and
                        the other on powering up peoples’ homes. More challenges are
                        on the way.
                        One of the key reasons GE has succeeded in this ambitious
                        endeavor is that they are offering a serious opportunity for
                        would-be innovators. They have partnered with known trusts
                        and venture capital firms, and have together with them raised a
                        200 million dollar fund to invest in winning ideas.


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PEOPLE
                                            Despite all the technological advancement, the inevitable and
                                            extremely critical element in Cloud Companies – as in any
                  IN SHORT:                 company – is the people who ultimately manage all interaction.
      Who has to do what, what do they      Capabilities
      need for it, and how do they do it?
                                            With new methods of working come new requirements for skills
                                            readiness and learning needs. These capabilities can’t be
                                            acquired overnight. It is thus important to assess the current
                                            level of know-how, future paths for personal development, and
        Capabilities     Empowerment        recruitment and staff turnover goals.
           skills &         rights &
          learning       responsibilities   Empowerment
                                            Cloud Company people need a comprehensive, clear, and simple
                                            set of rights and responsibilities that allow them to act
                     Flow                   effectively act in the best interest of the organization. According
                 interaction &              to Gary Hamel, people need real-time visibility to performance
                 coordination               metrics and motivation to act, as well as the power to change
                                            things that affect performance.
                                            Flow
        Resourcing blueprint and            It is worthwhile to describe the interaction and coordination flow
          development paths                 with different internal and external actors to a certain degree of
                                            fitness, so that it is clear who does what in which situation –
                                            especially in critical situations requiring an added level of
                                            attention. This way interactions, reactions and responses do not
The
                                            get unnecessarily delayed.
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PEOPLE – Case In Point
                        Zappos, the largest online shoe store in the U.S., relies in
                        superior customer service as their competitive advantage
                        against lower-cost rivals.
                        All their employees go through an intensive training
                        period, after which they will be offered $2,000 to quit
                        instantly. Even director candidates go through the same
                        exact program that involves, for example, a period of
                        practical front-line customer service.
                        Those who do pass, get permission to represent Zappos
                        on social media channels of their choice using only their
                        own best judgment as guidelines. The same applies to
                        customer service: every employee is pre-approved by the
                        CEO to do anything within the company’s means to offer
                        great service and build customer satisfaction. That means
                        no target answer, resolution or cross-selling targets for
                        customer support. The result? Even Amazon with all their
                        muscle, technology, and prices could not compete, but had
                        to acquire Zappos for close to $1 billion.


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TOOLS                                    The final step deals with how to realize the collaborative
                                           experience internally and externally. Here we consider the
                                           issues of Architecture, Solutions, and Delivery.
                   IN SHORT:               Architecture
        Which means to use for most        Today’s ecosystem offers many solutions for building a
      effective but sustainable delivery?   Cloud Company’s backbone. Architecture can be built on
                                           external providers’ cloud services using software-as-a-
                                           service, platform-as-a-service, or even infrastructure-as-a-
                                           service offerings to set up operations – with little or no
        Architecture         Delivery
       infrastructure                      investment to internal ICT capabilities.
                             media &
        & platforms         interfaces     Delivery
                                           In addition to back-end and front-end services, a company
                                           needs to assess the devices, interfaces, and media required
                   Solutions               to deliver its services and content. In the age of device
                 applications &            operating system wars between partly non-compatible
                    features               platforms, this is certainly a non-trivial issue.
                                           Solutions

         Ecosystem depiction and           Ultimately, a Cloud Company needs to craft or acquire the
         phased delivery roadmap           applications and solutions for the task. Modularity,
                                           flexibility, sustainability, and openness are considerations
                                           that need to be taken upon. Where a comprehensive suite
                                           is sometimes effective, some environments require a more
The
                                           eclectic and shifting set of tools.
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TOOLS – Case In Point
                        An example of an innovative use of available tools and
                        platforms is Best Buy, who noticed that their customer
                        service people and salespeople were answering the same
                        customer inquiries time after time, e.g., about differences
                        between plasma and LCD displays in modern TV sets.
                        To help both their staff and their customers find the answers
                        more quickly, they set up Twelpforce, an open and public,
                        24/7 customer service on Twitter, a popular microblogging
                        service. Anybody with a Twitter account can direct a question
                        to the Twelpforce with a specified tag and will shortly get an
                        answer from one of the customer service reps – or another
                        customer. What’s more, Best Buy, doesn’t force any of its
                        employees to sign in and help, but they do it since it is an
                        invaluable source of information for them as well.
                        Even before Twelpforce, Best Buy innovated on architecture
                        and solutions. When facing a multi-million-dollar platform
                        investment for an internal social network, they decided
                        instead to build the system with internal resources and
                        people their staff knew. The result is Blue Shirt Nation, one of
                        the best working examples of internal SNS solutions – surely
The
                        in part thanks to ownership and pride in the endeavor.
                                                                                          34
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Aspiration
                                                                        needs &
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                                                      To ols                                 How
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                                             Capabilities                               Access            Mode
                                                skills &                                               competition,
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                                                                                                       collaboration
                                               learning                              & commitment
                                                                                                          & other
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                                                  interaction &
                                    respon-                                                   rewards &
                                                  coordination                                                                        35
                                    sibilities                                                incentives
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Conclusion

The cloud is shaping is our forms of organization, intertwined with technology and
culture. In technological development, the influence and importance of culture and
people cannot be underestimated. Media theorist Marshall McLuhan famously said, “We
shape our tools. And then our tools shape us.”
We predict that the transition to the cloud will be as dramatic for businesses as the
transition from the fixed landline to mobile phone. The shift was not only about the
technology, such as the disappearance of the phone cord. The mobile phone became a
personal identity device to be used at a point of creative expression.
The cloud will dramatically lower the transaction costs of doing business. As companies
decentralize various layers, including infrastructure, research and development,
marketing, and sales, they eventually allow a new form of organization to emerge: the
company as a cloud. This transition calls for new approaches to strategy, management,
and communications.
We would like to continue the dialogue with our readers at www.cloudcompany.cc. If
you are an expert, we hope that you will consider becoming a guest author at our blog to
share powerful ideas on how to become a cloud company.
In the Cloud,
Teemu Arina & Sami Viitamäki                                                                     36
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About the Authors
                                       Cloud Company is a joint book and media project initiated by two
                                       writers, consultants, and practitioners of social technologies:
                                       Mr. Sami Viitamäki and Mr. Teemu Arina.
                                       The authors have a background in technology, media, and
                                       telecom industries. As members of the net generation, they
                                       consider themselves post-industrial thinkers, pushing hard in
                                       order to discover an alternative view on business and culture.
                                       They are successful advisors to leading organizations and have
                                       written numerous articles and given popular presentations at
                                       major conferences internationally.
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Cloud Company: Social Technologies and Practices in Strategy, Management, and Communications

  • 1. TEEMU ARINA SAMI VIITAMÄKI E-book no:1 May 2011
  • 2. Why should you read this e-book? 1. Make sense of the cultural and economic implications of emerging social technologies. 2. Understand and shape internal and external digital communication strategies. 3. Design models for thinking and communicating new strategy and vision. 4. Increase efficiency and effectiveness by lowering the transaction costs of doing business in a digital world. 5. Make great products that are more meaningful and valuable for customers. 6. Empower employees in ways that bring greater customer satisfaction. 7. Leverage transparency to gain greater reputation, credibility, and trust in the marketplace. 8. Avoid constant reorganization by being more sensitive and open to changing customer needs. 9. Redefine the competition in a way that expands the market opportunity for everyone. 10. Stay focused on improving the bottom line and not be continuously driven by new tools and technologies. 2 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 3. What? Cloud Company is a book and media project exploring digitally distributed practices and social technologies for strategy, management, and communications. Why It’s clear that succeeding in today's networked world requires companies to be ever more agile, responsive, and intelligent in a digital environment. What’s not as clear is how to build these capabilities in a company. Cloud Company seeks to answer this question with a systematic framework. For Cloud Company is produced for global leaders developing strategy and culture, management and operations, as well as communications and customer relations to answer the demanding challenges of everyday business and decisions for the future. How Through www.cloudcompany.cc, we discuss and develop the fundamental concepts through research, articles, and dialogue with executives and experts. During 2011 we will develop this material into a comprehensive book illuminating the roots, transitions, and practical issues in designing and building a Cloud Company. Stay connected: Like us on Facebook Subscribe to newsletter Follow us on Twitter Subscribe to RSS 3 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 4. Who? Sami Viitamäki • Partner and Strategy Director, TBWA • M. Sc. (Econ.) Degree in International Design Business Management (Economics, Arts & Technology). • Known and praised speaker on the impact of digital and social practices and technologies on marketing, communications, and customer relationships. • Ex-marketing manager and member of group-level social media unit at TeliaSonera, the largest telecom operator in the Nordics. • Key strengths: crowdsourcing, digital branding & marketing, service design & content www.samiviitamaki.com development, social technology & distributed practices in management and marketing. Teemu Arina • Public speaker, writer, journalist, and management consultant for digital technologies. • Given approximately 100 presentations a year at recognized conferences, business summits, and universities in Germany, the U.S., the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, and Italy. • No. 1 speaker on social media at Speakersforum, the largest speakers agency in Finland. • CEO of Dicole Ltd. and award-winning technology entrepreneur for over 13 years. • Key strengths: social media, open innovation, net generation, knowledge management, service design, digital ecosystems, collaborative learning, and e-learning. www.tarina.me 4 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 5.
  • 6. We live in turbulent times... 6 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 7. globali- zation shifting vertical & networked evolving balance of horizontal economy structures power mobility ‘free’ vanishing remote information geopolitical services & middle (co)working overload goods market decreased frugal organizational stability innovation economic novel new global hunt disruptive deal management forms of for talent competition hunters ideas payment true transparency social shopping Businesses face several transitions simultaneously... net global generation village accidental cloud aging digital entrepre- prosumers computing societies divide neurship open context- individual standards & awareness & societal interfaces mobility continuous end of educational creative partial technological 9 to 5 reform class attention the social next gen. smart augmented technology & search & mobs human platforms analytics ubiquitous computing 7 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 8. ...while the traditional organization struggles. 80% of leaders, when asked, state that Executives routinely require new initiatives they’re strategy is communicated to prove their potential through a tedious, understandably across the organization... time-intensive and watertight process... ...but according to middle management only ...which should in theory lead to more than 15% of them can effectively communicate the existing rate of 10% of new offerings and thus execute the company’s strategy. Management surviving in the market place. Ref: TBWA study 2009 Ref: Copernicus Marketing Consulting Employees Customers When company management are asked if they offer a superior experience to their customers, over 80% claim that they do... ...which is in sharp contrast to customers saying that only 8% of companies they deal with really deliver this kind of value. 8 Ref: Bain & Company (2005) www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 9. The situation calls for rethinking and redesigning Strategy & Leadership Management Communications & Operations & Interactions and for the digital era. 9 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 10. It calls for a Cloud Company approach. 10 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 11. Cloud Services I know... • 1980s - Network TCP/IP, ICT, mobile phones, 1G. • 1990s - World Wide Web GSM, hypertext, commercial internet, search engines, mobile internet. • 2000s - Web 2.0 Web as a platform, social media, user-generated content, geolocation services, crowdsourcing. • 2010s - Cloud Cloud computing, cloud-based services, application stores, augmented reality, Deep Space Internet, internet of things... 11 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 12. ...but what is a Cloud Company? Traditional & Precision, speed, Vertical and horizontal, charismatic standardization multiple roles & domination & specialization multinational design Cloud Company Entrepreunial & Functional & Matrix Virtual & cooperative structures divisional structures structures network structures Pre-bureaucratic Bureaucratic Post-bureaucratic 12 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 13. In a Cloud Company distributed practices and social technologies play key roles in transformation on every front... 13 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 14. ...Enhancing interaction and bringing results. Utilization of the company’s collective intelligence Intelligence and insight for (co)creating for better decision-making processes. Management propositions more valuable to customers. Empowerment of workers who manage their own Effective communications and interactions knowledge for constant, iterative learning. for increased market footprint and sales. Employees Customers Fast and personal customer service and care that spur loyalty and recommendations. Internal resources, partners, and customers effectively organized for daily operations. 14 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 15. So what does a Cloud Company look like? 15 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 16. Cloud Company extends to all areas of business. LEARNING FROM THE ENVIRONMENT Lea Str ders ate hi y g p ic t Communctaoions Intera i ns LEARNING IN & ON ati nt LEARNING FROM ACTION CUSTOMERS on s er e m e & PARTNERS O p ag The an M Triskelion
  • 17. Cloud Company extends to all areas of business. It is about deep strategic LEARNING learning, constant adaptation, LEARNING and change in near real-time. FROM THE FROM THE ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT Lea Str ders ate hi y g p ic t Communctaoions Intera i ns LEARNING LEARNING IN & ON IN & ON ati nt LEARNING FROM LEARNING FROM ACTION ACTION CUSTOMERS CUSTOMERS on s er e m e & PARTNERS & PARTNERS O p ag The an M Triskelion
  • 18. Cloud Company extends to all areas of business. It is about deep strategic LEARNING learning, constant adaptation, LEARNING and change in near real-time. FROM THE FROM THE ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENT It utilizes open and distributed Active practices, social technologies, Intelligence and digital interfaces. Lea Str ders Systems Thinking ate hi Transpa- rency y g p ic t Communctaoions Intera i ns Personal DIGITALLY Learning DISTRIBUTED Environ- Technologies ment Interfaces Practices LEARNING IN & ON ati nt LEARNING FROM ACTION CUSTOMERS on s er e m e & PARTNERS O p ag The an User- Crowd- M centric sourcing Triskelion design
  • 19. Cloud Company extends to all areas of business. It is about deep strategic learning, constant adaptation, LEARNING and change in near real-time. FROM THE ENVIRONMENT Active It utilizes open and distributed practices, social technologies, Intelligence and digital interfaces. Lea Str ders A Cloud Company improves Agile Planning Systems & Development Thinking ate hi intelligence, agility, and Transpa- responsiveness across all rency y g p areas and business functions. ic t Communctaoions Intera i ns Personal DIGITALLY Learning Effi odu DISTRIBUTED Environ- Technologies ment Pr cie cti Interfaces ea ve Practices nt on on Cr ti ti Pe e ac lu er LEARNING er Va Int IN & ON ati nt LEARNING FROM ACTION CUSTOMERS on s er e m e & PARTNERS O p ag The an User- Crowd- M centric sourcing Triskelion design
  • 20. A Cloud Company runs on data Social networks, online shops, mobile applications, websites requiring registration, more sophisticated equipment at factory floor or point of sale, even evolving outdoor advertising – all enable us to tap into an explosively expanding ocean of real- time data on human behavior. In contrast to low-performing companies, industry top performers are more skilled in applying analytics over intuition in business decision-making on any given area – not just the traditionally analytics-heavy areas such as finance and operations. Areas such as customer service, sales and marketing, customer experience management, brand communications, and workforce planning and allocation are all areas in which sophisticated analytics are traditionally not deployed. Yet industry top performers routinely beat low performers in analytics application in these areas as well – and reap benefits as a result. After the more basic needs of operational efficiency and revenue growth have been met, analytics on the areas of innovation and learning should be seen as a top priority. Interestingly, the more advanced a company is in analytics, the higher pressure it perceives for coming up with even better data sources and tools. 20 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 21. A Cloud Company is not overrun by data While data capture and analysis is essential for a Cloud Company, the ways to actually utilize it in actually guiding daily work and future strategies are where the true distinctions between winners and losers lie. But utilizing data in an environment in which we produce more data each year than the whole human history up to the previous one is not an easy task. A total of 60% of companies readily admit that they get more data than they know how to use effectively. Managing data in a Cloud Company involves many considerations new to a traditional company: how do we relate to utilizing others’ data; how do we approach the openness of our own; what is the level of perfection and completeness we require from the data our actions are based on; what is the frequency of collating, inspecting and acting on data; how and in which form do we disseminate data across the organization and how do we refine it into knowledge, know-how, and competitive advantage? These are all questions a Cloud Company needs to answer. However, a lack in understanding and know-how, adequate resources and skills as well as management bandwidth among other reasons currently prevents many 21 organizations from effective data analysis and application. www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 22. But where to start? Rethinking, redesigning, and rebuilding strategy, management, and communications requires more than a will to get there. It requires a framework for innovation.
  • 23. Enter A.D.E.P.T Developing strategy, management, and communications to respond to challenges of the networked world requires a comprehensive approach. We have crafted our A.D.E.P.T. framework through years of exploratory research, expert discussions, and practical experience with organizations. The framework systematically addresses essential issues and challenges in designing and developing distributed practices and social technologies for strategy, management, communications, and market Interactions. We now want to open up our approach and thinking for discussion through our blog and e-books. We do this to share what we have learned so far and to develop our own thinking further. Ultimately, we aim for the best possible end result in our framework, the Cloud Company book, as well as the accompanying cases and tools through interaction with our readers. 23 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 24. The A.D.E.P.T. framework for redesigning strategy, management, and communications consists of five elements: Assessment addresses the organizational perspective, analyzing the current A situation in terms of environmental, competitive, market, and public contexts, establishing goals and urgency, as well as assessing the organization’s apparent and hidden strengths and challenges. Domain emphasizes the human participants’ view: their desires, goals and needs as D well as their current strategies and methods for achieving those goals, the frequency and intensity at which participation and interaction are required, as well as the most potent shared objects and topics around which to generate interest. Engagement is about designing interaction around the established objects and the E mode of engagement, openness, and commitment over the course of the interaction, as well as effectively motivating participants, be they customers, employees, or other actors. People comprises the human factors required to build and maintain sustainable P interaction, assess skills, and realize full learning potential as well as redefine and redistribute rights and responsibilities, and also support and reinforce daily interaction loops and flow of information. T Technology addresses the technology-related issues in creating an accessible and sustainable environment for interaction, choosing the right infrastructure and platforms, crafting or selecting the right applications for different purposes, and delivering the experience through the right media and interfaces. 24 www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 25. ASSESSMENT The assessment phase means setting the stage for change IN SHORT: and consists of three areas – Environment, Aspiration, and Organization. Why do we need to change – and where do the opportunities lie? Environment In a world of constant disruption, the environment is never again a static landscape, but instead is an ever-flowing and Environment Aspiration changing seascape – usually a stormy one. It is crucial to opportunities needs & parse, grasp, and rank the most relevant trends and & threats urgency developments in the market fast enough to be able to exploit them – and avoid threats and pitfalls. Aspiration Organization strengths & After recognizing the opportunities, current business needs challenges on all Cloud Company areas – strategy and leadership, management and operations as well as communications and customer interactions need to be assessed, prioritized, and ranked according to urgency and criticality for success. Directions, goals & schedule Organization Realistically assessing the company’s strengths and challenges in meeting the needs of the marketplace and the The business itself is key for effective development. 25 A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 26. ASSESSMENT – Case In Point How do you rid yourself of old habits and open up your eyes for new business opportunities in practice? Consider the case of The Atlantic Magazine. The Atlantic was a quality ensemble that had been around for 150 years, but one that had not turned a profit in over a decade. With the onset of the recession and ever- increasing shift to digital media consumption, they were at a low-point in 2008, and forced to admit that if nothing changed, they would soon face bankruptcy. What they did was simple and ingenious: they started looking at their business from the viewpoint of an imagined Silicon Valley startup that was aiming for disrupting, cannibalizing, and overthrowing The Atlantic’s business. The results? The magazine’s revenues have doubled since 2005; digital ad revenue is currently 40% –  compared to an industry average of 15% – and most importantly, after a decade in the red, they turned a profit of $2 million in 2010. Read more about it here. The 26 A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 27. DOMAIN Domain is about in-depth knowledge about the human actors in the system gained by examining Actors, Contexts and Objects. IN SHORT: Actors Where in the participants’ lives and minds do we focus to be relevant? Knowing the actors means being familiar with the participants’ world and their inherent desires and needs, not merely demographics or expressed wants. As Alexander Manu has thoughtfully observed, “The whole modern global economy Actors Contexts would not exist if it was not for man’s irrational desire to desires situations become something else than what he now is”. & needs & environments Contexts The contexts represent the situations, frequency, and intensity Objects of interactions and where they currently happen or could take shared topics place. This can unearth opportunities for meaningful exchange & issues in unobvious situations and environments. Objects On the basis of knowing the actors and contexts, we can Actor / context / object identify and decide on the social objects around which to opportunity map generate activity. As no activity revolves around links between people per se, these topics of genuine interest help bring people together, converse, and co-create with a shared purpose. The 27 A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 28. DOMAIN – Case In Point As a case in tackling customer needs with analytics and meeting them with a sophisticated, networked solution, we have Assurant Solutions, a company that sells credit insurance and debt protection, and faced a 16% retention rate when customers called to cancel their services – good in the industry but still far from desirable. What they did was to challenge the conventional wisdom that customers valued operational excellence metrics – low abandon rates, fast speed to answer – above all. When they brought in IBM’s team focusing on deep analytics to uncover the customers’ real needs, they discovered something interesting. Customers were actually happy to wait longer – if that meant being paired with a customer service representative (CSR) best suited to their needs. Pairing each caller individually and in real time with the best possible CSR tripled their retention rates and led them to launch a B2B offering called RAMP together with IBM. You can get familiar with RAMP here. The 28 A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 29. ENGAGEMENT The engagement phase involves designing the forms of interaction IN SHORT: and co-creation most potent for achieving the identified goals through the areas of Access, Mode, and Motivation. How to interact fruitfully, effectively, and sustainably? Access Access is not a trivial issue even in a time when gurus preach about the virtues of universal openness. Who can interact, on which Access Mode terms, how access and privileges are leveled, and other elements of transparency competition, access can all act as powerful accelerators or detractors regarding & commitment collaboration, engagement initiatives and their effectiveness. or other Mode While collaboration is the form of interaction most often springs to Motivation mind when talking about social technologies and distributed rewards & practices, other basic forms, such as competition and self- incentives expression, are suited to different needs and require their own considerations to be successful. Motivation Engagement and Motivating participants requires thorough thinking about intrinsic phasing plan incentives – such as pure enjoyment from taking part, creativity, and challenge; extrinsic social incentives – such as visibility and authority; and extrinsic material incentives – such as redeemable points, products, or cash. Remember that cash is not necessarily the The best participation driver. 29 A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 30. ENGAGEMENT – Case In Point In 2010 GE launched the Ecoimagination Challenge, a open innovation experiment for businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators, and students around the world to share their ideas about a next-generation energy grid as well as electrical applications. The challenge generated multiple new business and growth opportunities for GE. So far the challenge has attracted thousands of high quality ideas, suggestions, and proposals that are elaborately presented through scientific papers, system descriptions, images, and videos. The participants range from ten year olds to veterans in their nineties, and from seasoned professionals to clever hobbyists. Up to this point, the public has answered to two major challenges: one of them focusing on powering up the grid and the other on powering up peoples’ homes. More challenges are on the way. One of the key reasons GE has succeeded in this ambitious endeavor is that they are offering a serious opportunity for would-be innovators. They have partnered with known trusts and venture capital firms, and have together with them raised a 200 million dollar fund to invest in winning ideas. The 30 A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 31. PEOPLE Despite all the technological advancement, the inevitable and extremely critical element in Cloud Companies – as in any IN SHORT: company – is the people who ultimately manage all interaction. Who has to do what, what do they Capabilities need for it, and how do they do it? With new methods of working come new requirements for skills readiness and learning needs. These capabilities can’t be acquired overnight. It is thus important to assess the current level of know-how, future paths for personal development, and Capabilities Empowerment recruitment and staff turnover goals. skills & rights & learning responsibilities Empowerment Cloud Company people need a comprehensive, clear, and simple set of rights and responsibilities that allow them to act Flow effectively act in the best interest of the organization. According interaction & to Gary Hamel, people need real-time visibility to performance coordination metrics and motivation to act, as well as the power to change things that affect performance. Flow Resourcing blueprint and It is worthwhile to describe the interaction and coordination flow development paths with different internal and external actors to a certain degree of fitness, so that it is clear who does what in which situation – especially in critical situations requiring an added level of attention. This way interactions, reactions and responses do not The get unnecessarily delayed. 31 A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 32. PEOPLE – Case In Point Zappos, the largest online shoe store in the U.S., relies in superior customer service as their competitive advantage against lower-cost rivals. All their employees go through an intensive training period, after which they will be offered $2,000 to quit instantly. Even director candidates go through the same exact program that involves, for example, a period of practical front-line customer service. Those who do pass, get permission to represent Zappos on social media channels of their choice using only their own best judgment as guidelines. The same applies to customer service: every employee is pre-approved by the CEO to do anything within the company’s means to offer great service and build customer satisfaction. That means no target answer, resolution or cross-selling targets for customer support. The result? Even Amazon with all their muscle, technology, and prices could not compete, but had to acquire Zappos for close to $1 billion. The 32 A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 33. TOOLS The final step deals with how to realize the collaborative experience internally and externally. Here we consider the issues of Architecture, Solutions, and Delivery. IN SHORT: Architecture Which means to use for most Today’s ecosystem offers many solutions for building a effective but sustainable delivery? Cloud Company’s backbone. Architecture can be built on external providers’ cloud services using software-as-a- service, platform-as-a-service, or even infrastructure-as-a- service offerings to set up operations – with little or no Architecture Delivery infrastructure investment to internal ICT capabilities. media & & platforms interfaces Delivery In addition to back-end and front-end services, a company needs to assess the devices, interfaces, and media required Solutions to deliver its services and content. In the age of device applications & operating system wars between partly non-compatible features platforms, this is certainly a non-trivial issue. Solutions Ecosystem depiction and Ultimately, a Cloud Company needs to craft or acquire the phased delivery roadmap applications and solutions for the task. Modularity, flexibility, sustainability, and openness are considerations that need to be taken upon. Where a comprehensive suite is sometimes effective, some environments require a more The eclectic and shifting set of tools. 33 A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 34. TOOLS – Case In Point An example of an innovative use of available tools and platforms is Best Buy, who noticed that their customer service people and salespeople were answering the same customer inquiries time after time, e.g., about differences between plasma and LCD displays in modern TV sets. To help both their staff and their customers find the answers more quickly, they set up Twelpforce, an open and public, 24/7 customer service on Twitter, a popular microblogging service. Anybody with a Twitter account can direct a question to the Twelpforce with a specified tag and will shortly get an answer from one of the customer service reps – or another customer. What’s more, Best Buy, doesn’t force any of its employees to sign in and help, but they do it since it is an invaluable source of information for them as well. Even before Twelpforce, Best Buy innovated on architecture and solutions. When facing a multi-million-dollar platform investment for an internal social network, they decided instead to build the system with internal resources and people their staff knew. The result is Blue Shirt Nation, one of the best working examples of internal SNS solutions – surely The in part thanks to ownership and pride in the endeavor. 34 A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 35. Aspiration needs & urgency Environment opportunities & threats Organization strengths & challenges Actors W e? desires & hy ai n Ass er needs Delivery ? Wh Dom media & Context es interfaces Solutions m situations & en s applications Objects environ- & features t shared topics & issues ments Architecture infrastructure & platforms A.D.E.P.T Engagem ? ent W hat To ols How ? People Who? Capabilities Access Mode skills & competition, transparency collaboration learning & commitment & other Empowerment Flow The rights & Motivation interaction & respon- rewards & coordination 35 sibilities incentives A.D.E.P.T. Framework www.cloudcompany.cc
  • 36. Conclusion The cloud is shaping is our forms of organization, intertwined with technology and culture. In technological development, the influence and importance of culture and people cannot be underestimated. Media theorist Marshall McLuhan famously said, “We shape our tools. And then our tools shape us.” We predict that the transition to the cloud will be as dramatic for businesses as the transition from the fixed landline to mobile phone. The shift was not only about the technology, such as the disappearance of the phone cord. The mobile phone became a personal identity device to be used at a point of creative expression. The cloud will dramatically lower the transaction costs of doing business. As companies decentralize various layers, including infrastructure, research and development, marketing, and sales, they eventually allow a new form of organization to emerge: the company as a cloud. This transition calls for new approaches to strategy, management, and communications. We would like to continue the dialogue with our readers at www.cloudcompany.cc. If you are an expert, we hope that you will consider becoming a guest author at our blog to share powerful ideas on how to become a cloud company. In the Cloud, Teemu Arina & Sami Viitamäki 36 www.cloudcompany.cc
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