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- Financial changes designed to minimize CAPEX and maximize OPEX.
- Acquisition changes that prioritize as-a-service IT consumption and multisource procurement.
- Operational changes that shift from data center ownership and physical management toward the virtual management of IT services from data centers owned by AWS, Azure, IBM and Hosted VMware providers.
What’s Driving Innovation?
- Monolithic designs, toward designs that aggregate the use of microservices.
- Agile and Waterfall management models, toward fully automated DevOps.
- Physical infrastructures and virtual servers, toward containerized environments.
- How to design and build new apps.
- How to modernize existing apps with cloud services.
- How to optimize the IT owned and operated by the enterprise.
Pursue Multipath Digital Transformation
- How IT service consumption is changing into a commerce-like transaction similar to buying songs from multiple online streaming music vendors;
- How IT service delivery is changing from service requests that initiate workflows towards fully automated functions governed by IT corporate policies;
- How IT service governance is changing from incident keyed governance after-the-fact to the proactive setting and enforcement of policies that control consumption based on individual business unit usage models and cloud adoption strategies.
- Run a strategic portfolio analysis: Prioritized based on importance to customer experience, focus on high priority apps.
- Develop your app-by-app migration plan: For priority, application create a focused SWT Team for each application.
- Create a customer-obsessed cloud team: Think products and not projects (short iterations with quick customer feedback).
- Pursue relentless automation: This requires standardization.
- Re-engage with your trusted partners: External advice in the early change of a cloud migration can kick off the required culture change.
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