Trust in transformation…to the Cloud
Technology, business, life, peoples, all things are in flux. “Nowhere do we find immobility. Everything is unstable, precarious and destined to dissolve. Life is marked by change: change in seasons, time, age and events…” (Psychologist and philosopher Riccardo Venturini)
So at what stage do we trust in change?
What would Malcolm Gladwell discern to be the Tipping Point to moving to Cloud technology? And can we work backwards from that to embrace change: its opportunities, effectiveness, and provision for growth and improvement?
When we at Salesworks considered moving to ‘the Cloud’ our first instincts were fear and clinging: loss of access to data, loss of control, exit strategy if it didn’t work out, training time, lost productivity, employee grrrr….factor, structuring a contract with a Cloud service-provider, downtime, small-business appropriate, torture-tested….hey….hold on a minute!
Interestingly, it was none of these things that brought us to the table? Cost-savings, reduced future capital equipment requirements, concentrated IT software and support, availability of lower-cost short-term data storage options. ALL GOOD THINGS were the trigger to opening our eyes and ears. We had initially ‘let go’ and welcomed in what Microsoft had designed as the NEXT-GEN paradigm shift in technology.
Due diligence was required to transition to the Cloud, and we considered just how much many of us on the planet are already there: personal email on a worldwide server, bank account information accessible to us while travelling worldwide, online tax return preparation and storage, broker accounts and electronic trading tickets (versus the old-fashioned stock certificates and strip bond paper), etc. Caterpillar to butterfly. Trust comes without the conscious awareness of trusting. ‘Data encryption,’ ‘password-protected,’ ‘bit-encrypted’ are terms many of us use, consider familiar, and trust. Why not the Cloud?
The heart of transformation and metamorphosis is becoming aware of the “indistinct boundaries between different worlds” (Italo Calvino.)
The next world in technology is the Cloud. Lighten your load and come fly with us!
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