Biggest issue with Cloud is that business users are using it to get results and bypass the CIO.  This has 2 MAJOR issues for the CIO

- It is driving an even larger wedge between business and IT because Cloud apps give "immediate gratification" showing HOW SLOW internal IT are.  See blog http://is.gd/57D3T

- Business users don't know what they don't know, so are buying from Cloud vendors is a compliance/risk nightmare waiting to explode in CIOs face. Books like "Thinking of Buying a Cloud Solution - Ask the Smart Questions" help. http://is.gd/57FFZ - Which is why I wrote it  8-)

Time for reality TVwhere CIO becomes business-savvy and trusted advisor to the business? This is a major challenge as the business has grown to despise the CIO for siding with IT and failing to deliver for years.

It probably requires a dradical makeover, including the CIO reporting the COO and not having IT staff report to him/her.

They need a different philosophy, if only to emphasis the change.  They need to see themselves as business but with an understanding of what IT can do, not as IT with a knowledge of the business.

Having said that there are some role models out there.  They are radical, evangelical and a little edgy.  People like Jeremy Vincent from Jaguar Land Rover.