In 2009 the Accenture Institute for High Performance surveyed business leaders from 669 large organizations in nine countries and over 20 industries about their use and plans for cloud computing. The results were just released in a report entitled "Cloudrise: Rewards and Risks at the Dawn of Cloud Computing " written by Jeanne Harris and Allan Alter.

 

It wasn't a surprise that security is the number one concern of executives, but there were some other significant results, including the following:

This week I spent much of my time doing research for a trends in business process outsourcing (BPO) piece that will be coming soon to a smart, tech-oriented portal near you. ☺

I mention BPO now because one notion that came up repeatedly in describing the new, lean corporate America was the idea of  “doing more with less.”  More than one specialist remarked on the quest for a lighter operational footprint in the aftermath of economic downturn.  It’s still in play in a fragile recovery that’s in early days. Even the recovery, as it continues to unfold, won’t save us from fewer bodies and work sourced differently, it seems.