Cloud TransformationHarnessing Digital Disruption in the era of the IoT On Demand Economy

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The On Demand Economy

The Economist describes ‘Workers on Tap’ where workers are employed on a utility basis.

The ‘Future of Work’ - Freelancers organized via dynamic e-marketplaces

Workers on Tap

Massive new startups like Uber taxis, Airbnb and many more are pioneering the ‘On Demand Economy’

An On Demand Business Framework overlays a ‘digital mesh’ across available resources,

Digital Disruptors

The Era of the Virtual Enterprise

● CIOs that embrace Digital to pioneer disruptive business models

● Entirely virtual business models

● Ocado operates entirely on Google Compute - Read the case study

“Ocado doesn’t operate out of physical stores. Instead, our customers place their orders online via our webshop and mobile applications. These orders are then picked and packed in huge automated Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs), the largest of their kind in the world.”

“Technology is at the core of almost everything Ocado does. We consider ourselves a technology company that also does retail. Our culture and make-up is much closer to that of Google than it is a bricks and mortar retailer. “

Michael Porter, author of the most highly regarded business strategies ‘Competitive Advantage’ describes three distinct eras of how technology can impact and improve this advantage:

1. The start of enterprise IT: 60’s - 90’s2. The Internet: 90’s - 00’s3. The Internet of Things: 10’s+

IoT Smart Products - The Third Era of Competitive Advantage

IoT Product Systems - Harnessing Big Data Cloud Computing

Michael describes how products will evolve to become ‘product systems’, an integrated ecosystem of partners and IT systems that intelligently monitor and optimize the performance of the product, using Cloud-based big data analytics processing sensor data.

DevOps and microservices

These trends drive the need for faster software development and deployment, aka ‘DevOps’.

In ‘Nike’s Journey to Microservices’, they explain how they are adopting new software models like ‘microservices’ to break up monolithic applications into lots of smaller pieces.

As part of a move to ‘Continuous Delivery’ this increases the number of innovation projects they can work on, while reducing the lines of code.

Software best practices for digital disruptors

Government as a Platform

Francis Maude describes the UK’s plans to move towards ‘Government as a Platform

Estonia X-Road

● National Identity card with chip at 15● Each card uses a unique ID number● Identity-centric data sharing ● Link between policy and digital architecture

- Law passed to restrict agencies to ask only once for information

Lithuania SIRIP

● State Information Resource Interoperability Platform

● Digital e-services platform architecture

● Plug and play approach for creating new apps

● Common identity sign-on service

● Common payments and digital signatures

Integration-platform-as-a-service offerings support a

new, cloud-based approach to address the perennial

data and application integration challenge.

Gartner iPaaS