This presentation provides a look at how CIOs should be thinking about tackling the culture change that goes hand-in-hand with cloud adoption.

2. Recovering Chief Information Officer, energetic leader,
and obsessive cloud computing advocate
2013
Benefits
100%
on-premise
2005
90%
Cloud based
Results:
300% growth in Revenue
466% growth in Patients Served
Diversified from 1 service line to 5
Drivers:
• Agility & Continuity
• Scaling
• Mobile
• Innovation

3. Amazon Web Services
Enterprise CIO Advisor

4. Reframe the “Cloud Strategy” conversation from
a technology debate into a business leadership
opportunity.

5. We know a paradigm shift is occurring:
Past
• Hardware & Software
• Custom code/
Programming
• Departmental solutions
• HelpDesk
• Closed Systems
Now
• Data Center Management
• Addressing legacy code
• Data governance
• Security & Compliance
• Enterprise standards
• Mobility
• Traverses every aspect of
business
• Philosophical division around
cloud computing
• Outsource management
2020
• Leadership alignment on business and
culture imperatives
• Fluid business objectives
• Increased empowerment of business
decision makers
• Multiple user experiences
• Hardware/processing viewed as a utility
• Business enablement with flexible
enterprise standards
• Increased agility w/ shorter cycle times
• Applying technology instead of creating
customization
• Disposable technology
• Massive datasets from multiple sources

6. To address this ever evolving paradigm, it is critical for
all levels of IT to emerge from the shadows of our
predecessors and lead a new approach to solving
business challenges through innovation.

7. We traverse every aspect of an enterprise
Why in business
Mission
Leadership Principles
Business Objectives
Business focus
Transformational
Functional
Strategic
Survival
Collaborators
Board of Directors
C-Suite Executives
Managers
Partners
Employees

8. Leaders clearly understand and articulate
how they directly or indirectly impact their
company’s MISSION.
“Earth's Most Customer Centric Company”
Embrace
The Mission
1

9. Business
Objectives
Leaders embrace and influence their
company’s overarching business objectives.
2
• Agility
• Flexibility
• Elasticity
• Cost Reductions
• Alignment
• Availability
• Security
• Innovation

10. For large enterprises, embracing the mission
and being aligned with business objectives is
sometimes easier said than done.

11. Evolution of the Enterprise

12. Leaders are leveraging the .
Time
Agility
Functionality
Complexity
Cost
Enterprise wide
cloud adoption
inflection point.

13. Many Worry That There Are Only Two Choices
Build a
“private” cloud
Rip and replace"
with AWS
# 1
# 2

14. The Cloud Isn’t An All-or-Nothing Choice
On-Premises
Resources
Cloud
Resources
Integration
(“Hybrid”)
Corporate Data
Centers

15. Drive
Change
Leaders drive change through transparent
broad reaching proactive conversations with
multiple stakeholders.
3

16. IT Executives IT Managers
System Engineers
& Developers
Vision
Strategy
Strategy Strategy

17. C-suite:
Leadership, vision, enterprise communications, business objectives
Adjacent Departments:
Collaboration with finance, HR, legal, risk, & LOB decision makers
Info Security & Compliance:
Proactive approval of policies and procedures.
Core & LOB IT teams:
Gap analysis, change management, investigation, acquire cloud experienced talent
Individual member of IT:
Individual exploration and embraced contribution to the vision

18. Prioritization
Teamwork
Organizational awareness
Problem solving
Self-awareness
Proactivity
Influence
Decision making
Learning agility
Technical expertise
Drive
Change
3
Leaders are building the next generation of
employees by focusing their staff on a diverse
set of new skills.

19. To drive a culture of innovation, leaders
realize they have to let go of the past.
“Today’s problems can not be solved if we still think the
way we thought when we created them.”
- Albert Einstein

20. Letting go of the past is the hardest part of
any type of transformation.
Let
Go
4
Mission Obsessed
Why to invest?
Perspective Change
How to deliver?
Active Engagement
Who to engage?
Risk Tolerant
When to deliver?
Benefit of
Department
Operational
Experience
Immediate
Adjacency
Cross
Section
Solution
Description
Technical
Design
Core Competencies
In the business of?
Tactical Strategic
Execution
Individual
Goals
Company
Results
Departmental
Focus
Enterprise
Current Value
State
People
Process
Technology
Envisioned
State
Mission
focused
Business
Aligned
Strategic
Dynamic

21. Words to
Action
5
Apply business value as the primary driver
to the journey.
Exploring Interfacing Integrated Full
Value = Benefits - Detriments
(Speed + Agility) (Risk) + (Cost)

22. Reframe your “Cloud Strategy” conversation from a technology debate
into a business leadership opportunity.
Clearly understand and articulate how you directly or indirectly
impact the mission of your company.
Embrace and influence the overarching business objectives
which need to be accomplished.
Letting go of the past is the hardest part of any type
of transformation.
Embrace
The Mission
1
Business
Objectives
2
Drive
Change
3
Let
Go
4
Drive change through transparent broad reaching proactive
conversations with multiple stakeholders.
5 Apply business value as the primary driver to
Words to
Action
the journey.