This book presents Organisational Sustainability Modelling (OSM), a new method to model and analyse risk and return systematically for Cloud Computing. Return includes improvements in technical efficiency, profitability and service. Risk includes controlled risk (risk-control rate) and uncontrolled risk (beta), although uncontrolled risk cannot be evaluated directly. Three OSM metrics, actual return value, expected return value and risk control rate are used to calculate uncontrolled risk. The OSM data collection process in which hundreds of datasets are used as inputs is explained. Outputs...

This book identifies the current role and effectiveness of e-learning and its key issues in an industrial context. The first objective is to identify the role of e-learning, particularly in staff training and executive education, where e-learning (online, computer-based or videoconferencing learning) has made significant impacts and contributions to several organisations such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, Cisco and Cap Gemini Earnst and Young. The second objective of this research is to understand the effectiveness of e-learning. This can be classified into two key issues: (1) methods of...