IT Doesn’t Matter By Alex Cheong Germaine Wong Julie Laffy

Opportunities IT Suppliers and Service Providers cloud infrastructure and applications. cloud strategy, mobility & social media key strategic differentiator. cloud services rapid growth market – AWS China (Dec 18 th 2013) Huge potential upside.

Opportunities IT Clients Outsourcing – IT as an expense. Reduced IT cost structure. no upfront fixed capital investments. pay per use pricing options from service providers. options to scale up and down – resizable computing capacity. Leveling of the playing field – remove barrier to entry. Removal of undifferentiated heavy lifting.

Opportunities Use of enterprise systems to automate workflow process allow focus on growing business; and achieve productivity gain When managing subsidiaries across the world, cloud computing allows centralized control with local empowerment (use of local language) Streamline value chain Business concentrate on orchestrating a network of producers who are geographically dispersed Benefit of Big Data Data collected is an asset to the company for use in developing strategy Reaching out to global market – for sourcing and finding customers