With cloud skills of all kinds in hot demand across many industries, banks are having to come to grips with an uncomfortable truth. Hiring, on its own, will not provide them with the skills they need to maximize the value of the cloud.


My previous post looked at the specific must-have skills identified by Accenture analysis for cloud success. In this post, I’ll walk through our four-step framework for growing these skills within an organization. Here’s a high-level visualization:


The second is that the first two steps in the framework focus on the organization as a whole and the market, while steps three and four zoom in on the people within the organization. Alternating between these two frames of analysis is no accident.