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AUTHOR
Ed Mahon is the author of the Amazon #1 release in cloud computing. His follow up work, “The Cloud: Increasing Risk, Cost and Complexity” is due out in early 2019.
SPEAKER
From lecture halls to corporate training workshops to strategic planning sessions. Ed Mahon has engaged and informed teams on issues of transitioning to, and doing business in, a cloud-based environment.
CONSULTANT
After nearly two decades as an CIO, Ed Mahon can help your business transition smoothly to the cloud and operate efficiently in the future.

A LITTLE ABOUT ED MAHON
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Ed Mahon has been an expert in the cloud from its earliest forms in the industry. After serving as a CIO for many years, Ed teaches the pitfalls and practical reality of moving to… and working in the cloud environment. Best Selling Author, speaker, and consultant, Ed has helped numerous individuals and businesses understand their options and make the correct choices within the growing cloud-based environment.

NEW BOOK AVAILABLE NOW
Leveraging the Cloud Marketplace to Mitigate Risks, Costs and Complexities.
If you are a Chief Information Officer (CIO), you know transitioning to the cloud is a very large and risky project. Though your cloud strategy maybe part of your reference architecture, you may still continue to struggle to assess how the cloud actually fits into the larger corporate business model. Further, it is a daunting task to assess the cloud marketplace for vendors that are a good fit. Additionally, reducing operational costs during the cloud transition will be difficult especially if you have adopted a ‘cloud first’ mindset. Expenses will continue to grow in both the private data center and in the cloud.

Transitioning the Enterprise into the Cloud:
A Business Approach
A practitioner’s approach
North of $600,000 is spent annually on cloud computing. Yet, this is only a small portion of the total IT spend. Still, much work remains to complete the transition, as the cloud is recognized as a superior information technology service delivery model. A cloud transition, involving a move from a premise-based data center to an Internet-based, on-demand model, is complex, risky, and costly. Significant strategic planning and execution efforts lie ahead, as corporate leaders strive to deliver products and services while reducing their cost of operations.
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Alternative IT Sourcing Strategies: Six Views
EDUCAUSE Review recently asked six CIOs to talk about alternative IT sourcing strategies and about whether they are, or aren’t, “doing it themselves”—providing technology services—at their institutions.
Cloud-sourcing. Outsourcing. Consortial sourcing. Institutional sourcing. Collaborative sourcing.
Antecedents of organizational engagement:
As organizational leaders worry about the appalling low percentage of people who feel engaged in their work, academics are trying to understand what causes an increase in engagement. We collected survey data from 231 team members from two organizations. We examined the impact of team members’ emotional intelligence (EI) and their perception of shared personal vision, shared positive mood, and perceived organizational support…
Cloud sourcing: Consolidate suppliers or go best of breed?
By John Dix Editor in Chief, Network World _____________ If you are going with public cloud services, there is a certain appeal to centralizing your apps with as few suppliers as possible to minimize the management overhead. But given the recent outages with Amazon...
Implementing an ERP on Time and on Budget: An Innovative, Inclusive Approach
This ECAR research bulletin provides an innovative and practical approach to implementing an institution-wide enterprise resource planning (ERP) both on time and on budget. It describes the principles applied at Kent State University from December 2005 through June 2008 while the institution implemented an ERP that included 10 modules from the SunGard’s Banner Unified Digital Campus along with 22 bolt-on applications and 24 integrations with legacy systems.