February 27, 2013
To date, much of the focus on moving IT to the cloud has centred on the technical and logistical challenges. But the implications for your people should not be overlooked.
Cloud technologies help promote significant cultural changes across a global organisation. Compared to on-premise solutions, cloud-based platforms ultimately offer a more flexible and scalable way to meet today’s business challenges. In addition, cloud technologies have removed many of the burdens of ongoing hardware and application maintenance costs, so IT departments are freed to focus on business innovations that can ultimately fuel company growth.
However, without a comprehensive transformation strategy, the benefits of the cloud will not be fully realised. This is especially true of global implementations, which bring unique challenges that add complexity and scale.
The challenges
Data is a complication for most projects, but this issue is greatly exacerbated in global implementations, due to the need to deal with differing applications and tools from country to country.
