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Professional service firms of all stripes have been telling their clients for years to focus on their core competence. This advice is what drives the existence of the professional services industry—companies deciding that some tasks are best handled by external specialists. What if you started taking that advice for your firm? What activities do you spend resources on that aren't your core competence?

For many professional services firms, IT operations fall into that category. How much do you spend maintaining your own email server or customizing your own back-office systems? Is that your core competence? What if you could move those operations to "the cloud"?

Why Cloud Computing is Important to Growing a Professional Services Firm

Gartner defines cloud computing as "a style of computing where scalable and elastic IT-related capabilities are provided 'as a service' to external customers using Internet technologies."

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