Peter Fingar, author of Dot.Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform is in the 11th hour of competing his book. Those are his words – but considering you can already pre-order the book @ Amazon, I’d say it’s 11 and a half… barely enough time to include a few last minute stories.
Peter is still looking for last minute stories about companies that implemented
innovative business models that were not possible/feasible without the
Cloud. To give you a taste of the book, here’s the editorial review from Amazon:
Shift happens. The unexpected matters. And right now, there’s something
in the air, something really big. It’s so big that to many it’s hidden
in plain sight. To others it’s as clear as seeing a cloud in the sky.
In fact, that something is indeed the Cloud, the 21st century
business platform. Just as it was with that newfangled ”Internet”
thing a decade ago, the Cloud and the technologies of Cloud Computing
suffer from confusion and hype. And sorry, pat definitions won’t do
when it comes to understanding these two new buzzwords. But, as they
are game-changing phenomena, business leaders–and the rest of us–must
gain an understanding of what these terms really mean and how they will
affect us just as much as the Internet affected us all. Remember how
the retail book industry was slow to grasp an understanding of the
Internet before they got ”Amazoned?” Well, here we go again, only
this time the shift could be even greater, and it’s happening in the
midst of economic turmoil. Buckle up and get ready for the ride ahead.
Dot.Cloud
explains the main ideas of Cloud Computing in lay terms, and does some
old-fashioned reporting to bring together the ideas of the movers and
shakers who are actively building the Cloud. But wait, this is not a
techie’s book about Cloud Computing technologies; it’s a business book.
It’s about what the Cloud portends for business … about
transformation in the ways companies are managed … about business
models for the 21st century. It’s about how companies carry out their
work in the Cloud instead of office buildings and skyscrapers, and how
they manage their business processes in the Cloud. It’s also about
human interactions in the Cloud, and about the end of management and
the rise of self-organizing, self-managed ”Bioteams.” Even more, it’s
about unlocking human potential in business, about unleashing passion in business. All this points to your company’s future, and your future, set in the context of the biggest
since World War II. So ultimately, it’s about lighting a fire in you.
We’d like for you to feel the same as the business technology writer
who previewed the book, ”It’s been a long time since a
business/technology book set my hair on fire with ideas.”
So here’s your chance to get published. If you know about a company that implemented
innovative business models that were not possible/feasible without the
Cloud, please use the contact form and we’ll make sure your story reaches the Author.
