Google Cloud Adoption: Organisational Change, Capabilities, Upskilling, and Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE)
Welcome to the continuation of the Google Cloud Adoption and Migration: From Strategy to Operation series.
In the previous part, we looked at how to map the as-is OS, application servers and databases to Google Cloud. In this part, we’ll talk about some of the fundamental organisational change that is required to be successful when adopting cloud, including:
- The skills and capabilities where demand is reduced.
- The opportunity for upskilling and reskilling.
- The capabilities you need.
- How to acquire the capability, skills and knowledge.
- Establishing a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE).
How Does Cloud Adoption Impact Our Workforce?
Effective Google Cloud adoption requires a huge change in how an organisation deploys and manages its IT.
Let’s recap some of the changes we’ve already covered in this series:
- Much (or all) of our IT will now be operating out of public cloud. This means a shift in responsibility.
- We will see a significant in reduction in the need for engineers and staff…