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Moving to the cloud is a huge opportunity to change your entire business. However, in order realise the benefits of cloud transformation, your operating model will also need to change. Here are some reasons why…

Adopting cloud opens up a brand new world of possibilities and benefits for your organization to explore. However, it also adds brand new levels of complexity and an increased rate of change – and traditional ways of working just can’t keep up!

This is where a Cloud Operating model comes in, providing you with a roadmap that will help you accelerate and automate your transformation into an agile, innovation and customer-focused organization.

Life in the cloud presents a very different set of challenges to those faced in your traditional data center environment. These are some of the challenges and gaps that a Cloud Operating Model can help you address:

  • Skills Gaps – Moving to the cloud requires an understanding of operations and security in the cloud. It also gives you access to machine learning and AI tools.  Does your current workforce have the skills necessary to operate in and exploit the new, agile paradigm that cloud introduces? Your operating model will help you address this question with plans to upskill and reskill your people and help you identify areas where you may need to recruit externally (Read more here or listen to our podcast)
  • Changing Culture – If your cloud adoption goals are to be more innovative, quicker-to-market and customer-centric then you need to drive a culture that supports this. Organizations need to manage the cultural shift in legacy thinking towards a more agile approach of working with the cloud and a cloud operating model should support this (Want to be a more adaptable, agile organization, read this blog)
  • Understand Impact Outside IT – The impact of cloud transformation ripples outwards (The Ripple Effect) affecting functions outside of IT. Your cloud operating model will help you identify and map how cloud transformation has a profound effect on the likes of Finance, HR and Procurement.
  • Security & Governance –  The cloud introduces new security and governance requirements and capabilities, which need to be addressed to establish controls and minimize risks. Your cloud operating model will cover what you need to adapt and maintaining to realize cloud best practices (avoid these cloud security mistakes).
  • Procurement When you move to the Cloud, you leave behind the predictable, but often expensive, fixed costs of a CapEx cycle; where you invest, maintain, and upgrade hardware. You find yourself in the flexible, scalable world of an OpEx model.  In your cloud operating model, finance and business models need to be adjusted to access the benefits of a consumption-based model.

Discover how our Advisory team can help you transform your operating model for the cloud here. Find out how you can kickstart your operating model transformation by reading our white paper.