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Cloudbusting Podcast


Jul 9, 2019

The ‘Ripple Effect’ of cloud transformation can have a profound impact outside of your IT organisation. In this episode, Jez and Dave are, once again, joined by Mark Simons to get an IT leader’s perspective on mobilising an organisation and overcoming these impacts.

The team discuss the importance of strategy and letting go of your legacy frames of reference. They also chat about the benefits of building a lighthouse project to create momentum and make the positive effects of transformation visible.

0:00 - Introductions

01:17 - News Part 1 - Nike just bricked its self-lacing shoes by accident

08:47 - Cloudy Cliffhanger Question

10:50 - Deep Dive - Mobilising your organisation and the ‘Ripple Effect’ of the cloud

11:20  - It started as an infrastructure project…

14:20 - What challenges did you face?

14:50 - How did you approach the challenges?

18:10 - The impact outside of IT - now you have the business at the table

20:00 - The Ripple Effect

21:00 - Reassessing the relationship between IT and business

22:53 - Conversations with the Leadership Team

25:23 - Approaching cultural change

28:00 - What is it like being a leader during a cloud transformation?

29:45 - What advice fo you have for leaders who are going through cloud transformation.

32:00 - Cloudy Cliffhanger Answer

35:15 - Ten Second Recommendations