Mindfulness and Quality of Innovation in Cloud Computing Adoption

Abstract

The emergence of cloud computing is quickly redefining the information technology (IT) and business landscape. Cloud computing involves delivery of IT infrastructure, software and platforms as a service to the end users. This IT acquisition model saves organizations from huge capital expenditures on IT and the burden of keeping a huge IT department to provide system support. Cloud computing as an IT innovation is steadily generating a lot of interest within IT innovation researchers and practitioners. Extant research in IT innovation has heavily relied on the dominant paradigm which explains and predicts innovation adoption on the basis of economic-rationalistic models. These models assume a direct relationship between an organization's innovator profile and the quantity of adoption in terms of earliness, frequency and extent of adoption. Further, they have always assumed a positive relationship between the quantity of innovation and quality of innovation. The advent of radical IT innovations like cloud computing calls for a rethinking of the dominant paradigm in terms of its efficacy in explaining innovative behaviors in organizations. Organizations hoping to adopt cloud computing are in need of a unifying IT innovation model that will help them discern whether, when and how to innovate. That is, they are concerned about the quality of innovation. This study proposes an IT innovation adoption model that incorporates the concept of mindfulness as a moderating factor between quantity of innovation and quality of innovation. The proposed conceptual model is a result of a thorough literature review of the IT innovation adoption research. This study, though conceptual, enriches cloud computing research by proposing an IT innovation model that suits its radical nature compared to other IT innovations. The proposed model once validated will also be of valuable use to practitioners and researchers interested in cloud adoption.

Understanding the determinants of Cloud Computing adoption in Saudi healthcare organisations

“…This can be supported by the finding of [65] where the researcher found that perceived benefits has positive impact on Cloud adoption decision. The perceived benefits of Cloud Computing may go beyond cost savings such as providing new services that could not be provided before [64]. Awosan in [66] found that increased focus on core business is a major reason for adopting the Cloud.…”

“…soft financial analysis and hard financial analysis) in this context have high values which represent the importance of business concerns on the adoption decision. Since Cloud Computing is a new way of delivering and dealing with computing services not a new technology [64], many healthcare organisations evaluate the use of Cloud Computing from a strategic point view. This has been shown by making soft financial analysis as the most important factor among other factors.…”

Exploring the Determinants Affecting E-Government Cloud Adoption in China

“…If the top of the organization is highly sensitive to information security issues, so this government is likely to slow the process of adoption of cloud computing. In addition, if an organization level control of resources is very sensitive, and the resources of his own department transfer to the other departments under a unified management may weaken the control of resources department leadership ability, and even undermine the power of sector management leadership, then such governments may resist cloud computing technology (Oredo & Njihia, 2014).…”

“…The adoption behavior of the E-government cloud must be influenced by the size and complexity of information resources. The arrangement of information personnel and the transformation of the function are the problems that the organization is required to solve (Oredo & Njihia, 2014). Moreover, the number of the original systems and the degree of difficulty for IS migration determine whether to adopt cloud or not.…”

“…The matching degree between cloud computing technical and organizational strategy is one of the decisive factors of promoting the adoption by the governments (Oredo & Njihia, 2014). Governmental organizations scattered resources, information technology model is fragmented, so the application of cloud computing technology to build e-government public cloud platform is an effective way to promote government business collaboration and information sharing (Ho & Im, 2013).…”