Business Chief US+CAN Magazine November 2019 | Page 52

TECHNOLOGY
52 board , such as tangible ROI and new opportunities to compete , scale and grow . It ’ s important that it ’ s not just the customers that go on and benefit from this journey . Teams within the organisation must understand the technology and concepts being deployed and be shown the value of having existing systems changed .
As with any major cultural change , resistance is to be expected , especially when executed in parallel with a large technology project such as a cloud migration . Making sure teams are on board with change is foundational to success , and establishing processes for introducing them to new solutions and software is crucial .
The best migrations happen when individual teams work together , from DevOps to IT . Again , this is where an incremental approach is fundamental , as each step leads to new insights which require continuous course correction and adaptation . The often technical way in which cloud is described means that the crucial human factor of cloud migration is forgotten . A people-centric approach must be taken , one which rigorously
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