Above the Cloud: The Next Generation of Cloud Leadership 

Sponsored white paper with Heidrick & Struggles

To fully deliver on the promise of cloud computing, cloud service providers and customers/CIOs alike will require some new and highly specific leadership abilities – as we found in a series of in-depth conversations we recently conducted with leaders on both sides of the equation.

The hype as well as hope that has accompanied cloud computing since it first emerged is now giving way to fast-changing reality. Technology research company International Data Corporation reports that overall spending on cloud computing is growing five times as fast as spending for traditional corporate technology. The federal government, too, is looking aloft: its “Cloud First” policy encourages the use of cloud services for new projects and requires agencies to move at least three existing projects to the cloud by the summer of 2012. The Gartner Group estimates a cloud market totaling US$149 billion by 2014, and 100% penetration among Global 2000 companies by 2016. As providers of cloud services race to develop the requisite technical capacity coupled with viable business models and more and more CEOs and CIOs leverage the cloud for their companies, they will need to make sure that they have the requisite leadership skills to thrive in the new paradigm for the delivery and consumption of IT services.

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