Why Should You Buy?
Buying talent hastens the process. The benefit to hir-
ing new people is that you immediately bring in new
talent with the skill sets you’re looking for. You don’t
have to take the time to train these people – they
already know how cloud works. You can immediately
add value, which will help you get to your goals of
achieving agility and transforming your organization,
faster than you would have by going it alone.
The biggest challenge to buying new resources is that
cloud-experienced people are very hard to find and
recruit, AND they are going to cost you. As cloud
adoption takes off and scales across industries
throughout the globe, tech markets are facing a mas-
sive shortage of experienced talent. Cloud experts
are in short supply and therefore command high
salaries.
Another reality is that if you bring in a new cloud
team, you can’t afford to have it just be by itself. Inte-
grating your cloud resources into the way that your
organization operates and governs is important. If
you create an entirely new cloud entity, you’re setting
up something outside the core of your business. If you
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don’t integrate the team right away, you’re going to
have difficulty down the line fitting it into your
operations.
Is it Better to Just Borrow?
Borrowing resources essentially involves paying
somebody else to solve your problem – for a certain
amount of time. It could mean going to a large con-
sulting company, such as Accenture or Deloitte. Or it
could mean signing on with a firm focused solely on
the cloud, like Cloud Technology Partners (CTP).
Companies in this space have their strengths, and if
you’re going to go this route, it’s best to study their
offerings closely, to compare their levels of expertise,
their costs and the strategies they bring to the table.
Positive aspects of borrowing talent are, in some
cases, the same as buying it. You get immediate access
to skilled and well trained resources. That will get you
to agility quickly.
You also get flexibility — and access to expertise
beyond the employees who physically join your cloud
operation. If your project has a limited scope, you can
devote resources quickly and make decisions as you