With so many sweeping changes over the horizon, the role of IS researchers in the new environment cannot be stressed enough. If organizations are to reap the full benefits of cloud computing, we passionately believe that it is imperative for IS researchers, as the
experts and the thought leaders in the area, to be proactively involved in every discussion surrounding the technology from its very outset. As Agarwal and Lucas note about the IS community, “our strength as a scholarly community derives partly from our study of the firstorder, second-order and third-order effects of IT that span multiple functional areas and business processes” (p.390).