What sets apart organizations that successfully leverage cloud? Although many organizations see cloud as a “force multiplier,” leading organizations go beyond using cloud to achieve efficiency and agility; they use it to drive innovation. To understand how cloud investments relate to strategy and innovation goals, Deloitte recently surveyed cloud decision-makers across multiple industries about their experience with cloud and how business performance and innovation are affected by cloud strategy and maturity.

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Leaders do things that set them apart

Leaders are classified as organizations that widely view gaining positive outcomes from cloud as strategically important and have also achieved high levels of innovation in their top-priority areas. Our survey results suggest that Leaders are seeing the most value from cloud—based on strategy and innovation outcomes—because they do things that set them apart from their peers. They:

Cloud enables strategic value, even if you’re not a leader

No matter where our respondents ranked in our survey, they agreed that they found value from cloud, especially where it enabled them to meet their business and digital strategy goals and to serve their customers better. Specifically, our analysis showed that:

Learning from the Leaders

Most organizations are not innovating as effectively as they could be, which could limit their ability to achieve their future strategic goals. Lessons from Leaders can be powerful in guiding your future cloud strategy and benchmarking progress on your cloud journey—helping you get the greatest possible value from your cloud investments.

About the survey

To help understand how cloud investments relate to strategic enterprise outcomes and innovation goals, Deloitte surveyed 500 senior cloud decision-makers in the United States across a wide range of industries—asking detailed questions about their companies’ current cloud maturity, and how they view the future of cloud. We also conducted in-depth discussions with some executive-level cloud decision-makers. Our goal was to understand the extent to which cloud maturity is an indicator of business performance and innovation, and how organizations can best use cloud investments as a "force multiplier" for their digital strategies and overall business performance.

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