four key pillars<\/strong><\/a><\/strong> of hybrid cloud\u00a0success.<\/p>\nRecognized by the report\u2019s authors as \u201cleaders\u201d, one of the ways these firms excel is by ensuring their hybrid cloud strategies are aligned with business-wide transformation agendas. Unsurprisingly, this group all agreed they had accelerated their business transformation. This was in stark contrast to just 24% of those classified as \u201cfollowers\u201d.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s on the business-transformation agenda?<\/h3>\n
The research found that organizations\u2019 top priorities are innovating and creating seamless digital experiences, improving speed, and growing revenue from emerging technologies. It turns out that the hybrid cloud leaders can also unlock these goals more effectively than the rest.<\/p>\n
For example, almost half (49%) of the leaders have enhanced their product innovation in the past year, compared to just 39% of followers.<\/p>\n
In search of further insights, the authors also spoke to several senior digital execs, including Reto Urs Sahli, Chief Information Officer at Asahi Europe and International. His company worked hard to align its hybrid cloud strategy with the goals of the wider business.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe created a digital plan that allowed us to align our IT portfolio with our strategy,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe are now creating a new digital core, and with that comes a strategic investment into building our hybrid cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n
Seek support from the C-suite<\/h3>\n
The shift to a hybrid cloud environment usually requires significant investments of time, money, and resources. Executive buy-in is, therefore, critical to its success.<\/p>\n
Traditional approaches have placed IT in an implementation role only after senior management came up with the strategy. However, this dynamic is no longer feasible \u2014 and any businesses clinging to this antiquated model will be left behind.<\/p>\n
The risk is that a strategy uninformed by IT\u2019s insights on digital possibilities and pitfalls may well under- or over-reach, with dangerous consequences for the business.<\/p>\n
Miao Song, Global Chief Information Officer at GLP, says that CIOs must overcome this. \u201cIt’s important for the CIOs to be always at the frontend of technology development,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat makes a huge difference, specifically in the hybrid cloud area. They need to understand the details of how things should be done in this space, to be able to give the right direction to the team on how to move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Create a transformation roadmap<\/h3>\n
Getting buy-in from the C-suite is crucial to enabling companies to create a detailed roadmap for transformation success, ensuring alignment of the IT function and the business as a whole.<\/p>\n
GLP\u2019s Miao Song says transformation cannot be achieved by a single department and needs to be considered a company-wide mission. \u201cIt has to be a program,\u201d she says. \u201cIt can\u2019t be [a single, isolated] effort; it must be a well-thought-through program for the entire organization.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s very important to define a roadmap on how you achieve those things. You must consider how you optimize your application portfolio before migrating to the cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n
Download the full report, \u201cUnlocking the Secrets of Hybrid Cloud Leaders\u201d and take your business to the next level.<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nBy Tim Moody, Head of Portfolio & Strategy at Fujitsu<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once the concept of cloud computing was out there and starting to be understood, there was a period when it seemed possible that some businesses might make the shift and become totally cloud-based.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":620757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[16021],"class_list":["post-620755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-cocre8-technology-solutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620759,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620755\/revisions\/620759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}