Assessing cloud readiness at continental AG

MIS Quarterly Executive

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-24

  Loebbecke, Claudia ^a   Thomas, Bernhard ^b   Ullrich, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Continental AG ^*  (Germany)

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EID: 84864951824     PISSN: 15401960     EISSN: 15401979     Source Type: Journal    
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References (10)

1. McDonald, M. and Aron, D. Reimagining IT: The 2011 CIO Agenda, 2011, Gartner.
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3. Luftman, J. and Ben-Zvi, T. "Key Issues for IT Executives 2011: Cautious Optimism in Uncertain Economic Times," MIS Quarterly Executive (10:4), 2011, pp. 203-212.
4. Global Cloud Computing Market (2010-2015), 2011, Research and Markets (www.researchandmarkets.com).
5. Thomas, B. and Ullrich, T. "Cloud-Readiness: Continental IT Corporate Infrastructure & Security Strategy," eco Workshop, Cologne, 2011 (available at http://sicherheit.eco.de/files/2011/02/1102020_ullrich_Continental.pdf).
6. See, for example, Smulders, C. "Magic Quadrants and Market Scopes: How Gartner Evaluates Vendors within a Market," 2011, Gartner.
7. or scientific methods for evaluating IT investments (e.g., Farbey, B., Land, F. and Targett, D. "Evaluating Investments in IT," Journal of Information Technology, (7:2), 1992, pp. 109-122).
8. A metaplan technique involves collecting ideas when a group of people are working together, including capturing initial ideas from individuals without group judgment (brainstorming), grouping the ideas according to categories, and then reflecting on ideas that an individual participant may not have been aware of.
9. For examples of a similar approach to identifying client criteria for outsourcing and offshoring, see Hirschheim, R., Heinzl, A. and Dibbern, J. (eds.) Information Systems Outsourcing: Enduring Themes, New Perspectives and Global Challenges," Springer, 2006.
10. During the pilot application of the Cloud Readiness Method, Continental only distinguished between "likely cloud ready" and "not (yet) cloud ready." However, in the future, it anticipates categorizing the IT services in three ways-likely cloud ready, not yet cloud ready and unlikely to be assessed as cloud ready in the next few years.