Anders Trolle-Schultz, SaaS-it Consult, at SAP Super Summit

Today MMind's business partner Anders Trolle-Schultz (@TrolleSchultz), SaaS-it Consult, was one of the speakers on the online event SAP Super Summit.

'Doomed?' on Outsourcemagazine

My latest post 'Doomed?' on Outsource Magazine is out.

Breakout:

"I ask myself, will it be a true shift where traditional IT outsourcing providers* becomes outmaneuvered by smaller service provider, cloud brokers, in-house IT departments and non IT service providers acting as orchestrators of future hybrid IT? A shift caused by:

• Smaller SPs are able to change when the market does. Faster and shorter step to new decisions. 

• Smaller SPs are able to operate, manage and orchestrate solutions earlier exclusively reserved the larger ITO providers. 

• Non-IT service providers from mature branches bring money, resources and trimmed processes in to a sometimes immature IT world. 

• In-house IT departments are able to orchestrate their IT solutions. They don’t have to focus on fundamental operations provided by IaaS, PaaS and A-/SaaS; they are able to concentrate on core/special services and work more innovative to bring value to core business. To become the internal trusted cloud broker to avoid de-centralised procurement/adoption of products and services. 

• The act of “Fat and happiness”: instead of working innovative (know, predict and tell what the customer needs in the future) ITOs only focus on now! 

• ITOs don’t use partnership to build success. They build everything on their own." 

Tell me what you think on Outsourcemagazine, here on the blog or just send me a mail.


ITO's, SP's, non-IT SP's, "end-customers": Of course MMind is able to discuss in detail how your business can deal with this.

 

"Cloud Smart Meter" for AWS

My friends at Newvem have released its "Cloud Smart Meter" for AWS.

Short quoute about the app:

"The “Cloud Smart Meter,” for AWS, is a native iPad and iPhone application that enables chief information officers (CIOs) and IT managers to gain clear visibility into their AWS costs, risks, and assets while collaborating with their teams and managing their clouds from anywhere and at any time"

Read more: http://www.newvem.com/newvem-introduces-its-cloud-smart-meter-ios-app-for-iphones-and-ipads/

Download from app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloud-smart-meter/id566338022?mt=8

 

'The DNA of Product Management' by Hunter Walk

Today I read the excellent post The DNA of Product Management on LinkedIn by Hunter Walk, Director Product Management at Google.

I really think this one is important for Product Managers but especially for the Management team and, to bad, even sometimes to board members.

I copy three important paragraphs from Hunter Walk's post:

"2) Seek collaboration, not necessarily consensus