Successfully Staffing the Cloud

Government Technology: Many state, city and county IT offices are caught in a bit of a Star Trek-ian time warp — professional staff members originally recruited for an on-premises business model face substantial obstacles when moving application software and hosting to the cloud. CIOs must align their staffers’ skill sets with the constantly evolving demands of cloud computing, but few IT offices can keep pace.  

Cook County, Ill.’s Bureau of Technology (BOT) is a positive outlier to the trend of IT offices that struggle to upgrade and adapt staff talent to the cloud. In 2015, Cook County awarded $154 million in IT contracts to fund the BOT’s four major application modernization projects known within the bureau as the “big bang” — integrated justice, integrated property, integrated revenue and an enterprise resource planning system.

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