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6 KEY ACTIVITIES
TO SUSTAIN
YOUR CLOUD
TRANSFORMATION
All cloud initiatives require a heavy dose
of people and process investment.
"Move to the cloud or die" is a common headline in today’s tech journals. Such an alarm-
ing statement is not far from the truth. Any long-term technology roadmap worth exec-
utive consideration must have a significant cloud component. Unfortunately, research
finds most multi-year IT transformations dominated by the technology prospects. All
too often, leaders neglect to anticipate the people and mindset changes required to
sustain a shift to a cloud centric universe. If you are sitting down to map out your long-
term cloud strategy, please make sure to anticipate the budgets and expertise required
to address the cultural shift, skill gaps, learning capacity and leadership skill changes.
The reality is, migrating just one workload to the cloud will impact your current IT oper-
ating model. Such a change will require a well thought out change plan, and an action
list that scales to the volume of the workloads you anticipate migrating. This article
highlights six key activities you must do well to ensure a sustainable and scalable cloud
transformation program.
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