8

Work in the Cloud image

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital—the world’s best talents and greatest ideas.

—Jack Welch

Today, the complex movement of raw materials, goods, machinery, ideas, and people is a commonplace task that we take completely for granted. While the cloud may be helping us to become masters of the supply chain, we are only starting to understand how to master the knowledge chain, the collection of activities involved in packaging, transporting, and coordinating knowledge work, which increasingly takes place in the cloud.

Facilitating ...

Get Cloud Surfing: A New Way to Think About Risk, Innovation, Scale, and Success now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.