“We had been having conversations over a period of time with boards about remote working that has now been forced upon them,” Carmel Owens, chief executive, Sidero, said. She is now starting to see the same organisations turn their attention to the post-Covid world. “The senior management teams are recognising that cloud and IT can be a source of competitive advantage rather than a cost to be managed, that it could play a more critical role in making business strategies successful.” With cloud comes a change in the IT mindset – what Owens described as a shift towards products and platforms rather than projects.