If you haven’t been tapping the cloud platform for your organization’s digital development, then you have been missing a lot.
As more and more B2B and B2C transactions are conducted on the cloud, to build a cloud-ready operating model must be companies’ main focus for their investments. Not only does it bring new business capabilities but hugely reduces technology risk as well.
According to an article from McKinsey Digital, companies that adopt well and work with external cloud platforms market more quickly, innovate easily, and scale more efficiently than companies that remain to be indifferent with the cloud. Indeed, cloud platforms are key pillars of digital transformation.
As information and technology officers, it is important to define the cloud as more than just a next-generation application hosting or data platforms because a narrow definition of it guarantees failure.
My observation about many CIOs and CTOs is that they tend to remain into doing traditional implementation models by default because these were successful and safe strategies in the past but that only makes it almost impossible to capture the real value from the cloud. As information and technology officers, it is important to define the cloud as more than just a next-generation application hosting or data platforms because a narrow definition of it guarantees failure. Why you ask? It’s because it is majorly significant to take into consideration the design of how the organization will need to operate holistically in cloud, or else, it will increase the vulnerability of your organization from attackers and will prevent you to maximize a modern technology that enables business agility and innovation.
Here are some of cloud’s role in organizational digital transformation according to the International Data Corporation (IDC):
Cloud as a platform enables agile application development;
Cloud-based infrastructure is key to delivering flexible, on-demand access to the resources underpinning new digital business offerings;
Cloud allows organizations to scale infrastructure as needed to support changing business priorities, while reducing the risks of wasted IT resources.
Cloud reflects an approach to application design, deployment, and delivery that allows organizations to get more effective use out of their compute and data assets.
Truly the need for CIOs and CTOs to drive cloud adoption is at its all-time high. So, here’s three things you can do to maximize this opportunity fully:
With the COVID pandemic, companies are more forced to adopt modern and digital business models. You as business officers can accelerate your company’s progress by adopting the cloud since it is the only platform that can provide the required agility, scalability, and innovative capabilities required for this sudden transition.
On an important note, the transition towards the cloud can be tricky. Enterprises need a partner that has a wide range of capabilities and skills around cloud consulting to help drive this. Feel free to check out Croyten for our IT services and we can work together to get your organization’s digital transformation through the cloud platform going.
