Innovation, culture, and confidence drive higher cloud value

What sets cloud leaders apart? Innovation, culture, and confidence

Why do some companies glean more value from their cloud investments than others? According to the recent Deloitte US Cloud Survey, cloud leaders spend purposefully to innovate, and they use technology as a force multiplier. In this episode, David Linthicum talks with Deloitte’s Chris Thomas and Diana Kearns-Manolatos about that survey, and about what sets cloud leaders apart. Bottom line: Leaders innovate, they build a strong software engineering culture, and they have confidence in cloud.

Leaders need to be willing to make bold technology investments that are tracked back to strategic value goals, and that's really what's going to help give them the confidence that they're achieving what they set out to achieve, and part of being bold is being innovative

Chris Thomas is a principal in Deloitte Consulting LLP’s global technology practice and is the US banking sector leader for Cloud. He has 20 years of strategy consulting and hands-on transformation experience in the cloud and core technology infrastructure domain, specializing in financial services.

Diana Kearns-Manolatos is a senior manager in the Deloitte Center for Integrated Research where she analyzes market shifts and emerging trends across industries. She leads Deloitte’s global digital transformation research and focuses on topics including digital strategy, cloud, AI, cyber, blockchain, IoT, experiential technologies, and the future of workforce.

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