You have insider knowledge and many contacts at a large number of the academic publishers of electronic journals. You also have experience from the academic library side of the business. So, you have decided that you want to use today’s computing resources and capabilities to become a less expensive competitor of Marathon, who also provides much better service to academic libraries. 1. From the list select the one topic that defines your computing strategy and enables you to become an e-journal aggregator.
a. There are challenges to established companies as they shift to cloud
b. There are enablers and barriers to new entrants in a market when they adopt a move to the cloud
c. Clouds lower barriers to entry, and lower capital costs to launch a business
d. Clouds shift spending from large capital costs to profits and innovation
e. IT Vendors are shifting from selling hardware and software to services
f. IT jobs are shifting from operations and maintenance to using business savvy technology and creating strategy in order to innovate