Jayne Giemzo

To capture the real value from cloud, companies need to focus their investments and build a cloud-ready operating model. It has been more than a decade since the first corporate experiments with external cloud platforms, and the verdict is long in on their business value. Companies that adopt the cloud well bring new capabilities to market more quickly, innovate more easily, and scale more efficiently—while also reducing technology risk.

It has been more than a decade since the first corporate experiments with external cloud platforms, and the verdict is long in on their business value. Companies that adopt the cloud well bring new capabilities to market more quickly, innovate more easily, and scale more efficiently—while also reducing technology risk. Unfortunately, the verdict is still out on what constitutes a successful cloud implementation to actually capture that value.