OC CIO Minutes June 13, 2013

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

June 13, 2013 meeting

Present:        John Mooney, Sean Brown, John Alvertos, Keith Golden, Joel Manfredo, Jeff Hecht, Jim Sutter, Jon Grunzweig, Jeff Crowell, Dave Phillips

The following is a list of topics and speakers June through October:

6/13/13         Preparing for Cloud Computing               John Mooney, Pepperdine

7/11/1           Technology Business Management        Joel Manfredo

8/08/13         Internet of Things (IOT)                           Jim Sutter, Peer Consulting

9/12/13         BYOD                                                    Jeff Hecht, Word & Brown

10/10/13       Evolving role of the CIO                          Keith Golden, Econolite      

Topic:          Realizing business value from Cloud Computing

John Mooney is Department Chair and Associate Professor at Pepperdine University.

He recently took a sabbatical at CISR, where he worked as a research affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management.  He shared with us his findings with regard to Cloud Computing.  A copy of his slides is attached. Cloud computing enables … on-demand, network access with minimal effort to a shared pool of … computing resources.  Slide 4 is an interesting cloud computing taxonomy by Forrester.  The cloud computing case study was done in cooperation with Allergan, where they tried to answer whether the company, the IS department, and their platform was ready to double in size over the next 5 years.  They defined the business capabilities required, the key performance goals for IS, and adopted a “Cloud First” policy to meet their needs.  Agility is key.  They tried to analyze when would Allergan be ready to consider the Cloud.  They did an architectural review for the technology and security, and a vendor due diligence in both 2010 and 2012.  They discovered that the benefits from the Cloud approach were not just cost, but things like increased responsiveness, speed of deployment and business agility.  They also discovered that there were challenges to success, such as data security concerns, immaturity of the vendors, reliability, and long term cost uncertainties.  One of the key questions was what management practices were needed to realize business value from the cloud approach.  They came up with 6 imperatives to prepare for the Cloud:

-                re-define the IT value proposition from efficiency to agility

-                re-focus the enterprise architecture

-                re-allocate funding from CapEx to OpEx

-                re-structure IT governance

-                re-think the purpose of IT

-                re-engineer the IT organization

The implication is for IS to adapt or become obsolete.

 

What a good topic for a future discussion! 

This was a great presentation and I thoroughly recommend that you take the time to study the slides which can be found at: http://www.slideshare.net/occio  .