The weather has given us its annual sharp reminder of how fragile our transport infrastructure really is and no doubt there will be the odd business leader wandering through their half empty offices pondering the notion of home offices and this in turn brings another question to mind:

Should they be getting on with a Cloud strategy?

“Why not” is the logical answer but from the CEO’s perspective there are plenty of reasons “why not” and one of the biggest is politics: the political infighting such a radical change may bring with it.

Our CEO will start thinking about the stakeholders; who are the people to gain from a Cloud strategy? Who are the people to lose? And this at all levels of the organization. Just mapping that out is going to be a big enough task on its own then managing the upsurge of positive and negative emotions could become a full time job! And who likes getting involved in company politics anyway? Our CEO needs someone to help them do this as well as catch some bullets.

Enter the Cloud salesman – but is he up to it?