In order to meet your needs for cloud-related skills, what are you primarily focused on?

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Hiring employees who already have these skills24%

Relying on third-party resources and services from cloud providers54%

Retraining existing employees11%

A mix of hiring and retraining10%

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Fractional CIO in Services (non-Government)5 years ago

My view here is that sometimes you can coach, sometimes you need to poach.

The determining factor is how long your runway is. The shorter time you have, the more valuable poaching becomes.

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