About Cloud Lighthouse
Cloud Lighthouse is a small collection of some of the world's most experienced cloud technology leaders. We guide forward looking CXOx and their teams, Microsoft partners, investors, and technologists crafting, architecting, and actioning their cloud strategy. We believe that cloud ecosystems built upon strategic foundations make organizations future-ready to absorb successive waves of change. Cloud Lighthouse helps IT leaders to become strategic leaders for the age of AI, to assemble technologies from across Azure, Fabric, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and non-Microsoft services into modern cloud ecosystems that advance the strategic interests of the business or public sector agency.
Thinking back to major technological waves since the advent of the public internet, for years we ran on eight to ten years between wave periods. Let's use the ".Com Era" (that sounds funny now, doesn't it?), followed by "Web 2.0" (remember that?), and then "The Cloud". These wave periods have now shortened to something more like three to five years with Cloud, followed by “platform-first”, followed by the AI wave we currently see breaking ashore. The big takeaway is that the grace period for organizations to get their act together and position themselves for the next wave is growing much shorter, the margin for error much narrower. When we think about the non-technical barriers that so many organizations can't seem to get over when it comes to platform-first, we really wonder how many will miss out on the AI wave because they lack the wisdom or the willpower to make the most of it.
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Andrew Welch 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Managing Partner | CTO | Founder
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Mark Smith 🇳🇿
Managing Partner | Cloud Strategist
trans-Atlantic (and beyond)
Based in London, Boston, and Auckland with deep roots in the United States and Europe, engaged across borders, time zones, and cultures.
