Panel Discussion
Thursday 13th June 2013, 2.30-4.30pm, VAR Old Building, 2:30-4:30pm
Prof. Mary Lacity, University of Missouri, Saint Louis
Prof. Leslie Willcocks, Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Manage-ment, LSE
Dr. Will Venters, Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Manage-ment, LSE
Cloud computing is often seen as a form of outsourcing and reducing costs, but it can be much more. By increas-ing the agility of information technology in organizations, it can also drive innovation. The “cloud corporation" is amorphous, agile, and ambidextrous : It can integrate its IT far more closely with organizations along its value chain, it can quickly set up and scale new IS, and it can do all that while keeping its legacy systems and business un-touched.
The focus of our panel will be on the impact of cloud technology on organizational forms. Our panellists will try to illuminate issues such as: What impact will the shift to service-based computing have on organizations? What changes is cloud technology going to require from corpo-rates in order for this marriage to be successful? And what is the relationship between agile systems and new services corporations are able to offer?
As cloud computing increasingly looks set to go main-stream, it is a good time to consider how our ideas of IS in organizations are changing, and what are good ways to research them.
Florian Allwein
For event info: n.tempini@lse.ac.uk