The last two years of pandemic have reaffirmed world’s faith on technology and the disruption and transformation it can bring about in our daily lives. One strategic lever enabling this digital transformation has been “cloud”. Over the years, the world including India has understood power of cloud and the force multipliers concomitant with it.

 

In the post pandemic world organizations are moving their key segments such as procurement, supply chain, finance, human capital to the cloud, lock stock and barrel. Specifically, in supply chain, cloud has enabled firms to process huge amounts of data across the entire supply chain—at speeds and volumes never seen before. Cloud has also facilitated speed, scale and sustainability across supply chains.

 

Firms are leveraging cloud to enhance and modernize their legacy applications, create insights and data driven cultures and are able to predict the future backed on the power of artificial intelligence. Governments across the globe are putting cloud to work to streamline citizen services

 

But one key challenge against the cloud growth story has surfaced in the form of cloud talent crisis. The pandemic has compounded the crisis and short-term band-aid fixes to solve it have rather complicated it further. Organizations are facing an insurmountable obstacle in acquiring, nourishing, and retaining right cloud talent