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Cloud adoption framework for successful digital transformation
Cloud adoption framework for successful digital transformation

August 2, 2022

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Cloud adoption framework for successful digital transformation

Framework required to help clients build, migrate, modernize, operate, expand, and optimize their applications, infrastructure, data, and analytics in the Cloud. Technology upgrades are only one aspect of the business value equation, but delivering the right value is the key. Hence, we need to consider all aspects like people, process, and technology in our framework.

Digital Transformation requires industry leaders to rethink their business priorities, strategies, and operations to ensure continued success and value-based delivery. Some of the key drivers are listed below:

Reduce customer churn, Increase New customer acquisition, Increase ARPU, Customer delight, Growth in Value-added services, Cost transformation, Reduce operation costs (OPEX), Improve time to market, Improve Customer Experience, Business consolidation, Operational efficiencies, and Modernization

 

    The cloud adoption framework for successful digital transformation talks about the capability maturity model for cloud adoption and covers key aspects and their maturity levels to achieve desired business value.

    Focus Area

    Maturity Level

    Value Delivered

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    2

    3

    People, Process and Knowledge

    Team

    Cross-functional teams

    DevOps

    DevSecOps/SRE

    End-to-end accountability

    Processes

    Agile

    Design thinking/process blueprint

    Process automation

    FinOps

    Workload cost predictability

    Cost Optimization

    Cloud ROI

    Technology - Design Maturity

    Architecture

    Client Server

    Microservices / Multi-Cloud

    Cloud-native or Cloud Agnostic

    Zero-touch operations

    Operations and Monitoring

    Alerting and Monitoring

    Self-healing, and Preventive AI/ML

    Data insights on cloud

    Delivery

    Periodic Release

    CI/CD Automation workflow

    Complete Automation

    Provisioning

    Scripted

    Infrastructure as a code

    Shift left -- Optimization

    Site Reliability Engineering

    Service availability

    Scalability and reliability

    Performance Matrix

    Security and Compliance

    Control the Access, Protect the Data, and Secure the network

    Monitor the Env.

    Security by Design

     

    Play Book for Cloud adoption framework for successful digital transformation:

    • Align your reason and key principles: Analyze how digital transformation adds value to your business. Figure out your business strategy (phase-wise approach) before you invest in anything.
    • Be prepared for a cultural shift: Digital transformation must put people at the center as it's not just a technology adoption.
    • Identify the current and future state of your organization's maturity in terms of People, Process and Knowledge, and Technical Design Maturity. Phase-wise plan to upgrade one or more components to achieve End-to-end accountability with Zero-touch operations on Cloud.
    • CAPEX / OPEX Model with the ROI needs to be well defined and accordingly, the transformation approach should be finalized (cap and grow, evaluation, and revolution).
    • Partner with both internal and external experts: Do more and do it faster with partners that share your vision. Leverage insider knowledge about what works and what doesn’t in their domain.
    • Get feedback and adjust: Need to design the customer experience from the outside in by obtaining extensive and in-depth input from the customers and other stakeholders.
    • Embrace New Ways to Improve: Bring start-up culture for agile decision-making, rapid prototyping, and flat structures.
    • Recognize employees’ fear of being replaced. Success would be difficult when employees perceive DT as a risk to their jobs.
    • Building capabilities for the workforce of the future (Train and upskill your workforce).
    • Improve design maturity: Invest in technology solutions that will scale with your long-term goals.

    Companies worldwide use technologies to reach consumers at their doorsteps to stay competitive during these uncertain times. Similarly, consumers have shifted towards online channels and your competition is just a click away. To succeed in a digital transformation that provides value to end customers, we need more resilient systems that support the new normal and cloud adoption at a faster pace.  


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    Chetan Walia
    Head - Hybrid Cloud Solutions & Presales

    Proven record of managing complex Cloud Migration and Digital Transformation projects (over USD 100 mn) entailing successful pre-sales, delivery, and operation of the large-scale mission-critical production systems (some with over 30 million subscribers). Visionary leader offering over 24 years of rich experience in Enterprise Architecture, Program Management, Consulting, and Cloud Computing across the Telecom domain and Managed Services engagements.

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