Many companies are still hesitant to go to the public cloud. An internal cloud for core data center workloads makes excellent sense.

A question, just out of curiosity, on what “semantically accurate” means. Once an enterprise has a taxonomy in place, would you recommend each department begin using the terms defined there in their reporting? Or can a department use its own definition of, for example, “Customer” in its internal reports? I mean, if a departments customer is another department within the same company, but the company itself has external customers, should governance attempt enforce a consistent usage of the word throughout the business and require internal customers to be called “Internal Customer,” or some other agreed upon term. Or should each group be allowed to use its own lexicon internally?

I can see arguments both ways, but I wondered what your preference would be.

Andj

On a personal level, as I pondered the question, I realized that for the past couple of decades I’ve been so immersed in the struggle for excellence and continuous quality improvement – in how we do our jobs and in the quality of the outcome – that I’ve never really stopped to assess our progress on the journey.

Everything is so much more complex than when we started – computing platforms and tools, the businesses we support, our national and international economies, and the geo-political environment in which our enterprises operate. Comparison is difficult, and maybe not all that relevant! Maybe what really matters is how much we can improve over yesterday!