This paper treats the positioning of top level management towards the Information Technology (IT) departments in a company at the age of cloud computing. The conceptual knowledge needed by the management to make profitable decisions regarding IT, take financial opportunities of professional clouds technologies, what to take in account for a migration towards a new infrastructure and what tools can be used for realistic costs estimation will be overseen. This is paper is addressed not to technicians but decisional chains having little or no knowledge about cloud and general IT technologies, needing to make strategic decisions or needing to get a better understanding over their IT environment.

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纲要：信息技术领域的知识经济实践

本文探讨了云计算时代公司高层管理对信息技术（IT）部门的定位。管理层在制定有关 IT 的盈利决策、利用专业云技术的财务机会、迁移到新基础架构时需要考虑的因素以及可用于实际成本估算的工具所需的概念知识将得到监督。本文不是针对技术人员，而是针对对云和一般 IT 技术知之甚少或根本不了解、需要做出战略决策或需要更好地了解其 IT 环境的决策链。