Having had the opportunity to spend time with vendors, services providers, and organizations throughout the world, the universal theme that I keep hearing is the increasing recognition of information as a potentially strategic asset. This is an incredibly important discussion for an enterprise to be having as this factor must be acknowledged as a leading influence in the process of selecting a cloud provider.
The challenge is that recognizing information as a strategic asset is an executive-level opportunity (and not one for the CIO’s office alone) and it is a compelling reason for the executives of the business to become more involved in the digital journey.
