The cloud may be powerful and promising, but I think it grates on CIOs.

Why? Because it just seems like so much outsourcing that they've been through before and the cloud hype is suffocating. Ahh, such is the price for a technology that will probably for the basis on most IT departments in the future.

Does this sound like you?  You are struggling to keep track of all your services, finding out who is using what service from what vendor, when each service is being used and the purpose of all. Add cloud to the mix, and you have mind-boggling complexity and a major challenge trying to manage multi-source environments.

While systems integration was once the big concern, today’s CIOs need to look to services integration.

What makes the best CIOs so successful? 

Is it technical expertise, or business acumen?

Is it the ability to run the day to day operations, or to deliver new projects?

Is it driving efficiencies from the current set-up, or building a vision for the future?

Where do people and relationships fit into this picture? Building and developing a strong team for example.

IT debt can be defined in many ways from the level of code complexity and the cost impact this has on making a change. Another common definition is the backlog of applications that are not supported at current release states.