What strategies are companies pursuing to move to cloud computing solutions? And what are the principal barriers they encounter along the way? These were the questions that Knowledge@Wharton posed to Erik Berggren, vice president of customer results and global research at Success Factors (an SAP company), and Don Huesman, managing director of the Innovation Group at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The major barrier, according to Berggren and Huesman, is fear of losing control on the part of traditional IT departments. Overcoming that fear, however, frees up resources that can be used for innovation.
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