I’m committing to build a farm on Minecraft with my child, teaching responsible online behaviour, perhaps raising sheep together! Encourage yourself and your organization to experiment with technology-like Starbucks does with their employees in hackathon-style training programs. Establish practices to augment the impact of technologyīuying the console and sitting back to enjoy the ride is not going to win me a parent-of-the-year award. Let’s also implement the winning habits of Continuum Competitors. Your mileage may vary, but the great thing about the continuum is that you can activate unique combinations to suit your preferences.īut selecting technology is just half the battle. I outlined three factors that are important for my unique circumstances. Like life insurance companies where policies last a lifetime, providers must ensure that legacy systems remain compatible with modern ones. Old memories & legacy support: My partner would like the gaming platform to play some of our old DVDs and Blue-Ray discs containing precious memories of times when skinny jeans weren’t a thing. A gaming platform, like a business-oriented cloud platform, cannot be a one-trick pony. Scaling isn’t just about more of the same – it’s also about continuous updates, new features, and new games. It makes inherent sense to invest in games/platforms that could, if need be, scale up to support an entire room of children co-creating, like in a gaming party. Minecraft, in which young gamers join friends to build things (in contrast, most games in my youth were about breaking things), has three million active users when I last checked. Even back in 2018, its mobile ordering app catered to 23.4 million people. Gaming parties & scalability: Starbucks, globally synonymous with coffee, believes in and demonstrates scalability. Globally, security and compliance risk emerge as the top pain-point s of cloud adoption, sharing the position with misalignment between IT and business. That means parental controls which block adult content, flag dangerous conversations, log locations, and anonymize identities.Ĭompanies, too, care deeply about privacy, not just for their confidential assets and employees but also for their customers, choosing a mix of private, public, and edge clouds that help them maintain this balance. Games are full-fledged cloud platforms now, and while the cloud is more secure than ever and children are online safety-trained, my job is to ensure my child’s data stays private at all costs. Privacy & security: As a parent, safety and privacy are paramount concerns. Other criteria that are important for me include: I want something to engage the entire family for many summers, help my child make new friends, improve hand-eye coordination, and perhaps even pique his interest in a career in technology later in life. Similarly, merely getting to the gaming cloud isn’t my core problem-any console can do that. Our research shows companies that outpace others don’t think of cloud as a single, static destination to migrate to but as a future operating model. I can offer some insights learnt from leading companies in our research (Continuum Competitors) and how they make difficult choices.
#LION SITTING ON CLOUDS HOW TO#
The bad news is that abundance can sometimes lead to ‘ analysis paralysis’: too many choices and concern for how to integrate them into your current and future lifestyle. Accenture calls this set of choices in its entirety the ‘Cloud Continuum.’ The cloud is no longer just the public cloud: it is a continuum of capabilities and services from the public through to edge computing and everything in between, seamlessly connected by cloud-first networks. The good news is that there are near-limitless cloud choices for family gamers as well as businesses today. Not being on the cloud today means obsolescence. For the recent Cloud Continuum research I led, 100% of the 4 ,000 C-suite executives we surveyed told us their companies were on the cloud, in some way, shape or form.
But the reality is different: All of us, including children, spend the lion’s share of our waking hours in the digital world today-up in the cloud. Which one? That’s the million-dollar question.ĭeep down, I aspire to be a model screen-free parent who helps his child discover and explore our amazing physical world.
I’ve decided to take the easy way out and buy a cloud-connected video game console for my eight-year-old. Summer holidays are here, and if you are a parent-like I am-you’re probably racking your brain to find new and innovative ways to keep your children busy.
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