Moving to the Cloud Corporation

The Barriers and Enablers of the Educational Cloud: A Doctoral Student Perspective

“…Collaboration: CC can improve collaboration between users and organisations. It allows them to implement tools, share applications and data, synchronise and work on documents simultaneously, and track colleagues and records to acquire real-time updates [25]. CC tools can therefore help both students and faculty to collaborate and communicate more freely online; Scalability, flexibility and mobility: CC enables institutions to increase their business growth without the need to massively change existing IT systems, and the elasticity of the cloud enables institutions not only to implement solutions swiftly, but also increase computer capacity when required and remove them when not required so as to react faster to unanticipated growth in demand [ Efficiency and agility: CC enables institutions to gain quick access to IT services they require without having to waste time and money on establishing their own IT infrastructure and capabilities [24];…”

“…In the context of this research, relative advantage leaned more towards the cost efficiency benefit of cloud technology. Willcocks et al [25] affirms that CC can improve collaboration between users and organisations, as well as allowing institutions to implement tools, share applications and data, synchronise and work on documents simultaneously, and track colleagues and records to acquire real-time updates. This confirms that CC tools can facilitate students' ability to collaborate and communicate more freely online.…”

“…A number of studies agree that the elastic and highly associable nature of the cloud enables institutions implement solutions swiftly, and increase computer capacity when needed [25]…”

Contractual and Relational Governance, ICT Skills and Organization Adaptations, and Cloud Computing Benefits

“…The wide range of benefits that CC can offer to firms has been extensively described in previous literature [2,4,12,13,15,22,24,31,32]. These benefits include reduction of the cost and improvement of the quality of the ICT support of firm's processes and activities, conversion of ICT capital investments to operating costs, ubiquitous access to ICT infra-structure using various kinds of devices (e.g.…”

“…Cloud Computing (CC), if properly exploited and managed, has a high potential to offer significant benefits to firms, which concern both reduction of the ICT and in general the operating costs of the firm, leading to efficiency gains, as well as facilitation and support of innovation activity [2,12,24,29,31,32]. However, these benefits are not straightforward and automatically generated.…”