Competing in the clouds: A strategic challenge for ITSP ltd

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 725-742

  Riedl, Christoph ^a,c,d   Leimeister, Stefanie ^a,e   Böhm, Markus ^a,f   Yetton, Phillip ^b   Krcmar, Helmut ^a,e  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Disruptive innovation; Education; Strategic decision making; Teaching case

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES; CRITICAL QUESTIONS; DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS; DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY; IT SERVICE PROVIDERS; STRATEGIC CHALLENGES; STRATEGIC DECISION MAKING; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84865079339     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.02740     Document Type: Article

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