Are you making the most of cloud capabilities in your organisation? Are you setting the competitive pace by using it to drive innovation? Perhaps you’re still building on success to establish a lead, or maybe you’re chasing the rest of the pack? Find out where you stand in the cloud race by completing the questionnaire below. For every statement that applies, tick it and award yourself a point. Tally them up and see if you are on track.

1. Are you making the most of cloud capabilities in your organisation? Are you setting the competitive pace by using it to drive
innovation? Perhaps you’re still building on success to establish a lead, or maybe you’re chasing the rest of the pack? Find out
where you stand in the cloud race by completing the questionnaire below.
For every statement that applies, tick it and award yourself a point. Tally them up and see if you are on track.
What are you using the cloud for internally?
Automating tasks to save money.
Streamlining operations to free management time and
focus on more productive tasks.
Promoting collaboration between teams to promote
smarter working, tap previously unexploited knowledge
and break down barriers to innovation.
Hosting servers previously managed internally.
Working with your suppliers and industry to drive down
costs and realise mutual efficiencies.
Using it to help tap niche areas of expertise and
knowledge outside the business.
What are you using the cloud for externally?
How does your organisation use the cloud to
serve customers?
Running web and social media applications.
Using advanced analytics and social media tools to
respond better and improve customer communications.
Using a broader range of data to anticipate customer
needs, shape new products and identify new markets.
ARE YOU LEADING OR LAGGING
IN THE RACE TO CLOUD?
How many points did you score?
You are achieving greater efficiency
through cloud, but could differentiate
your business further by making it
more responsive to customer needs
via cloud. Your ultimate aim could be
to put cloud at the centre of your
mobile, social and data strategies.
You are achieving greater efficiency
through cloud, but could differentiate
your business further by making it
more responsive to customer needs
via cloud. Your ultimate aim could be
to put cloud at the centre of your
mobile, social and data strategies.
You are still cautiously exploring cloud’s
capabilities. To drive competitive
advantage, you will need to analyse
how your operational and strategic
goals can further benefit from cloud.
Investigate how cloud can automate
work, streamline supplier relationship
and boost internal collaboration.
You are still cautiously exploring cloud’s
capabilities. To drive competitive
advantage, you will need to analyse
how your operational and strategic
goals can further benefit from cloud.
Investigate how cloud can automate
work, streamline supplier relationship
and boost internal collaboration.
You have deployed cloud on a
broad scale to secure efficiencies,
get closer to customers and are
gaining competitive advantage over
rivals. Continuing to innovate with
cloud services will keep you ahead
of the pack.
You have deployed cloud on a
broad scale to secure efficiencies,
get closer to customers and are
gaining competitive advantage over
rivals. Continuing to innovate with
cloud services will keep you ahead
of the pack.
7 OR LESS7 OR LESS8 TO 128 TO 12
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How is your department/organisation using
the cloud to reshape itself?
Indirectly, by seeking to be leaner thus freeing managers
to innovate.
Strengthening collaboration via the cloud to improve
workflow and speed innovation.
Using it to add new features and services to
existing products.
By using analytics to unearth commercially useful
insights from Big Data.
By sharing data seamlessly across applications.
It enables the business to make evidence-based
decisions because it lies at the heart of social, mobile
and analytics strategies.
How does the cloud help you use data to
make better decisions?
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