Welcome to the 'Cloud Inflation' Era
If you think you're in the business of communications technology, think again.
Sometimes we need to pull our minds out of the here-and-now and engage in some deep thinking about the future. So for your next thought exercise, how do cloud inflation, subsidiary membranes, and information surfaces strike you as topics worth mulling over?
I know, I know -- what in the world am I talking about?
Odd as these subjects might sound, they are concepts you might want to clue yourself in on if you want to understand the future of business, and secure any given organization's role in it.
Such was the message longtime business consultant and industry visionary Francis McInerney, of North River Ventures and FutureCreators, delivered to members of the Society of Communications Technology Consultants International gathered this week in Seattle for their annual conference. McInerney opened the conference with his keynote, "Cloud Inflation and You."
Let's start with that "cloud inflation" term referenced in the keynote title, and those information surfaces I mentioned in opening.
Beth Schultz is editor of No Jitter and program co-chair for Enterprise Connect. Beth has more than two decades of...
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