Cloud Surfing: A New Way to Think About Risk, Innovation, Scale & Success

by Tom M. Koulopoulos

When people hear “the Cloud,” they think of cloud computing, just a sliver of what the Cloud is today. The Cloud has grown: it represents the consummate disruptor to structure; a pervasive social and economic network that will soon connect and define more of the world than any other political, social, or economic organization. The Cloud is the first megatrend of the twenty-first century, one that will shape the way we will address virtually every challenge we face for at least the next 100 years. It is where we will all live, work, and play in the coming decades. The Cloud is ?where your kids go to dive into online play. It’s where you meet and make friends in social networks. It’s where companies find the next big idea. It’s where political campaigns are won and lost. Cloud Surfing is the groundbreaking book that will explain how to access the full value of the Cloud and how to embrace its possibilities.

Genres: Business

280 pages, Hardcover

First published May 22, 2012

About the author

Thomas Koulopoulos is the founder of the Delphi Group, which for 20 years has been providing thought leadership to global organizations on the intersection of business and technology. Named one of the industry’s most influential information management consultants by InformationWeek magazine, he is a recognized author on the subject, frequently appearing in national and international print and broadcast media, including BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Economist, CNBC, CNN, and NPR. Tom is the author of eight previous books, including The Innovation Zone and Smartsourcing. Said the late Peter Drucker, “Tom’s writing makes you question not only the way you run your business but the way you run yourself.” For the past two decades, his works have introduced core industry concepts, frameworks, and vernacular, such as the Single Point of Access, Touch Points, Digital Control Rooms, Corporate IQ, and Smartsourcing, all of which are widely used today.

Reviews

[Sunil · Rating 5 out of 5]

om is a natural at storytelling and you run into pleasant sprinklings of anecdotes that stay with you throughout the book. Each chapter of Cloud Surfing is a revelation; the more I read the more curious I became. Parts of it are science fiction at its best, only it may not turn out to be fiction.

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[Hope · Rating 2 out of 5]

I won a copy through the Goodreads' Firstreads program.

This whole book felt futuristic - an idea of what's to come with the cloud. Don't get me wrong, there are great ideas presented throughout - but nothing we haven't heard before. It was okay, but overall forgettable.

I will not be adding this to my shelves.

[Csimplot Simplot · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book!!!

[Ron · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't enjoy this book at all. I felt like it was more about what the cloud might one day be as opposed to what it is today.

[Danielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had a hard time with this book. I plodded through because I wanted to see where it went but it was hard.