Managing the Human Cloud

Managing the Human Cloud

The human cloud is growing rapidly. Year growth in the global revenue of human cloud platforms was 53% for 2010 and 74% for 2011. In today’s globalized business society, organizations understand the immense importance of outsourcing strategy and strive to come up with the best way to utilize this high priority company resource.

Based on this theory, the first aspect of this article is that cloud computing became an emerging IT delivery model which can significantly reduce costs and complexities in many companies from lots of industries while improving workload optimization and service delivery. This is the main idea the authors want to show us by explaining four the major human cloud platforms and how to make adjustments to make the cloud useful. I have deep believe after reading this article for more than 5 times since we can know it is pretty feasible from the points of history, the situation in IT industry, cases in application in the modern world and its positive spurring growth. The four human cloud platforms have developed as major types of business models for meeting the needs of potential buyers is the second aspect I want to mention. This is the main body of this paper and the reason will be we can know how it works now and predict how it will work in the future from it. Each platform owns different amount of suppliers and different group of buyers. These will be the main door of targeting different market segments in the future from pricing model, quality control and dual selections of buyers and suppliers. The third aspect will be its advantage and disadvantage in the future - benefit and risk. Besides the questions of project failure and IP leakage in the paper, the core question here is the cloud provider does everything from performing all updates and maintenance to managing security. The bigger picture, however, is that users are trusting their data for someone else to look