The Toronto Cloud Business Coalition – a group of more than 80 Canadian experts drawn from the IT management, cloud services provider, channel, academic, VC/corporate finance and consulting communities – has published a new document designed to help Canada’s SMBs to define paths to use of cloud within their operations.
Cloud Skills Requirements and Development: A TCBC Best Practices Document was co-created by a working group representing many different perspectives. The document contains essential guidance on identifying and developing the skills that are essential to capitalizing on the cloud. This document was created by the TCBC Cloud Skills working group: Alex Sirota (NewPath Consulting), Timothy Ubbens (American Express), Pam Maguire (Global Knowledge), David Sabine (Berteig Consulting), Nima Honarmandan (Berteig Consulting).
We were intimately involved in the creation of this report, providing regular feedback over the past several months. Figure 2 in the report describes a NewPath Consulting best-practice: the need for small company staff to adopt a "dual" skill set in all roles of a company. Both business and IT skills need to be developed enough to be dangerous and capable so that all parts of the company can readily innovate and deliver value to the company using modern cloud technologies.