How to create an environment that accelerates · 2020. 4. 22. · Brian Kozan AWS Skills Guild Delivery Lead, APAC Amazon Web Services . Transformation Cross-functional teams Culture

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How to create an environment that accelerates transformation and unlocks innovation

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Brian Kozan

AWS Skills Guild Delivery Lead, APAC

Amazon Web Services

Transformation

Cross-functional teams

Culture

Data driven

Experimental

Digital

Embrace failure

Upskilling

Transformation

Transformation

AWS Skills Guild: The formula

Technical and business

enablement

ChampionsBuild

excitement

1

Communicate Mission

Clarity of purpose

Five steps to accelerate transformation

Develop New Skills

Competence

2

Give Permission

Experiment in a safe environment

3

Architect a Community

Share and collaborate

4

Incentivise, Recognise,

and Reward

Enforce ournew idea of exceptional

5

The big question

How do I hire people who are innovative?

90%

…of IT decision makers report cloud skills shortages.

A survey from 451 research

shows that…

451 Research, Demystifying Cloud Transformation: Where Enterprises Should Start

September 2019, https://www.virtustream.com/lp/451-research-cloud-transformation

The big question

How do I teachmy people to be experimental?

Training is a crucial component of transformation

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”

- Peter Drucker

Transformation

Culture

Velocity

Innovation

Permission

People

Collaboration

Community Experimentation

1

Communicate mission

Clarity of purpose

Develop new skills

Competence

Give permission

Experiment in a safe environment

Architect a community

Share and collaborate

Incentivise, recognise,

and reward

Enforce ournew idea of exceptional

Five steps to accelerate transformation

2 3 4 5

Control

If you give your people free rein to innovate and experiment, how do you maintain control?

KPI’s

Mission Statement

Company Goals

Clarity

KPI’s

Mission statement

Company goals

Clarity

“We are stubborn on vision. But we are flexible on the details.”

Jeff Bezos

Competence

Cloud practitioner Architect Developer Operations

Control

Leadership is the best place to define strategy.

Staff have the data and customer insight on how to serve them better right now.

1

Communicate mission

Clarity of purpose

Develop new skills

Competence

Give permission

Experiment in a safe environment

Architect a community

Share and collaborate

Incentivise, recognise,

and reward

Enforce ournew idea of exceptional

Five steps to accelerate transformation

2 3 4 5

Permission

To learn

To fail

To collaborate

Permission tospend time on

all of these things.

1

Communicate mission

Clarity of purpose

Develop new skills

Competence

Give permission

Experiment in a safe environment

Architect a community

Share and collaborate

Incentivise, recognise,

and reward

Enforce ournew idea of exceptional

2 3 4 5

Five steps to accelerate transformation

Community

How does transformation happen in your organisation?

Community

Lunch and learn sessions

Community of practice presentations

Formal and informal events

1

Communicate mission

Clarity of purpose

Develop new skills

Competence

Give permission

Experiment in a safe environment

Architect a community

Share and collaborate

Incentivise, recognise,

and reward

Enforce ournew idea of exceptional

2 3 4 5

Five steps to accelerate transformation

Participation

We need to seek and find those people that are trying and failing.

KPIs and measurements

• Traditional metrics

• Commitment based

Andrew Wetherell

CEO, Alto Education

1

Communicate mission

Clarity of purpose

Develop new skills

Competence

Give permission

Experiment in a safe environment

Architect a community

Share and collaborate

Incentivise, recognise,

and reward

Enforce ournew idea of exceptional

Five steps to accelerate transformation

2 3 4 5

Thank you!

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