The other leg of the strategy is in enterprise areas - an election pledge, backed by a modest amount of Whitehall funding, and so far very little detail.
Ms Harney recently took delivery of a new report on enterprise strategy by a committee chaired by Eoin O'Driscoll, managing director of Aderra, which argues not only for more emphasis on high-value-added sectors and scientific research but also for greater efforts in marketing and promotion, in which Ireland has been weak.
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That is intentional, says Erich Clementi, IBM vice president of strategy and general manager, enterprise initiatives.
This is one of the most critical areas for the future of their cloud strategy in the enterprise, so expect to see customer stories and ongoing messaging on this point.
Recent departures include Thomas Hogan, executive vice president of enterprise sales, marketing and strategy, and Gary Budzinski, senior vice president of HP Technology Services.
Not only does that already comprise a ratio of one device per 1.4 employees, said Lance Perry, vice-president of IT customer strategy and success for Cisco, during an excellent presentation at the Consumerization of IT in the Enterprise (CITE) conference in San Francisco on Monday.
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This cloud strategy represents the first of the City's "enterprise, " or city-wide systems to migrate to the cloud.
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Empowering innovation requires a rethink of strategy and using technology as the backbone to building a future enterprise.
The first foray in implementing the new strategy was purchase of the Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine, an enterprise so distressed that it seemed nearly worthless on paper.
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By the reckoning of Lena Wilson, chief executive of Scottish Enterprise, who joined Mr Swinney for today's strategy launch, there are around 600 companies currently using skills that could be applied to the low carbon economy, but which are not yet being applied: traditional engineering, for instance, or aerospace.
Templeton College at the University of Oxford offers a series of Advance Management Programs, in four-week sessions, which focus on business enterprise and strategy.
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