The Weekender – 6PR Radio – Cloudy Tablets
Business Futurist | Foresight Strategist
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Morris Misel has been doing this for 30 years across 160 industries, with boards, executive teams, and leadership groups in Australia and internationally. More than 2,800 engagements. Over a million people a year through conferences, boardrooms, and media.
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Cloud-based tablets represent how organisations now work. They’re not standalone devices but gateways to shared information, collaborative workspaces, and real-time decision-making. For teams, this shift means work becomes location-independent and always current. The tablet itself is less important than the ecosystem it connects to. This fundamentally changes how organisations operate and where decisions actually happen.
Cloud tablets reduce dependency on fixed infrastructure and centralised control. Teams gain mobility, flexibility, and access to current information anywhere. For executives and boards, this creates new capabilities for decision-making but also new vulnerabilities. The shift is primarily about how organisations restructure authority, accountability, and trust when information is dispersed across cloud systems.
Security, data sovereignty, and vendor dependence become critical concerns. When cloud becomes essential to operations, organisations become vulnerable to outages, geopolitical policy shifts, and contractual changes they cannot control. Teams also lose resilience and become less capable when cloud systems fail. The deeper risk is organisational fragility and the assumption that cloud always works.
Cloud tablets flatten hierarchies in some ways while creating new gatekeeping in others. Information becomes theoretically accessible to everyone, but who interprets it, acts on it, and owns decisions shifts. For organisations, this often means culture friction: some teams thrive with distributed access, others struggle with lost clarity about who decides what and why.
Watch how your organisation actually uses these tools, not just adoption rates. Notice which decisions still require physical presence or paper trails. Observe where cloud failures create real crises versus inconvenience. The future isn’t tablets or cloud themselves: it’s understanding what your organisation genuinely needs to function when these become essential infrastructure.
