The document discusses the impact of the digital revolution and cloud technology on innovation and enterprise enablement, emphasizing the importance of adapting to technological changes. It highlights examples like the LibraryCloud API, which makes Harvard's catalog information accessible to the public, and notes the development of complex applications by students. Additional insights include the need for cultural adaptation and readiness for emerging competitors in the cloud-driven landscape.

1. The Digital Revolution :
how the cloud
enables innovation,
(and everybody wins)
Perry Hewitt
perry_hewitt@harvard.edu
@perryhewitt

3. We paid
for, named, and
nurtured our pets.
h/t Bill Baker

4. But now
we’re
maintaining
our web
infrastructure
more like a
herd of
cattle.
Photo credit: AmberSky235

6. Source: http://xkcd.com/908/
Beware techno-utopia: not all problems are
solved

7. enterprise
enablement

8. Using the cloud
to advance …
speed to
launch
initiatives like
mobile campus

9. Using the cloud
to advance …
measurement
capabilities
(including real-
time
web, media)

10. Using the cloud
to advance …
services to
improve social
integration

11. campus
innovation

12. https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx

13. The LibraryCloud API makes
available catalog information
about 12.3M items in the
Harvard Library.
The aim is to make everything
libraries know available to
everyone on the web, and to
enable and encourage the
collaborative development of
these apps and many more.
http://www.librarycloud.org/api

14. 350 teams in the
i-Lab Venture
Incubation Program
since January 2012
–
with student
founders
representing every
Harvard school.

16. Developers are
creating more
complex and
distributed
applications with
terabytes of data
and multiple
independent
services. Isn't it
time their
development
environments
caught up?
www.bowery.io

17. 2 parting
thoughts

18. student
empowerment
1. Make sure your culture’s caught
up to speed of tech.
Innovate, iterate, rinse, repeat.
It’s about change management.
2. Get ready for what cloud will do
to as well as for your business.
Who are your new competitors?

19. thank you
Perry Hewitt
perry_hewitt@harvard.edu
@perryhewitt