Why Cloud Projects Need To Be Great At Business Change

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Why cloud projects need to be great at business change

George WattsAWS Professional Services

Introduction

A little about me… Why I wanted to present to you

today

3Takeaways from

this session

Business Value of Information

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What does the ‘business value’ of migrating to the cloud actually mean?

Cost

Utility of information

Capability Management

Are you clear on the business outcome your project is trying to achieve?

Needs of the users

Legacy User Needs ≠ Cloud

User Needs

Platform as a retail product

Deliver like a retail product

Are you clear on who the users of your cloud project will be and their needs?

Why Cloud projects fail

Research Finding

The number one obstacle to success for major change projects is employee resistance and the ineffective management of the people side of change.

Data from 327 companies undergoing major change projects;Prosci Best Practices in Business Process Reengineering benchmarking study.

And what happens to our expected cloud adoption?

Optimisation

Migration

Foundation

Project

Sta

ges

of A

dopt

ion

(Sof

A)

See Appendix B for more information on each of the four Stages of Adoption

THE STALL

Key Components of executing a successful change to your business…

Where do your users need to be at to make the change successful?

The Number 1 factor in successful people change…

Sponsorship…

And the most important sponsor is the user’s line manager

Where to go next:

Excellent set of resources for managing the people side of change

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework : People Perspective